The historical novel in nineteenth-century Europe
Subtitle: representations of reality in history and fiction
By: Brian Hamnett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780199695041
Subjects: History and criticism; European Historical fiction
Description: Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical novel as genre and problem: an analytical and critical examination.; title: An exploration of the categories: history, narrative, the novel and romance ;; title: History and fiction: the trials of separation and reunion ;; title: The German Sturm und Drang, historical drama, and early romantic fiction ;; title: Scottish flowering: turbulence or Enlightenment? ;; title: Romanticism and the historical novel ;; title: The historians' response to the historical novel ;; title: History and invention in the Italian question --; title: Internal contradictions and unstable form : a comparative study of the historical novel's dilemma.; title: Was the historical novel at mid-century in crisis? ;; title: Is there a way out? Two experiments in myth and history ;; title: Benito Pérez Galdós and the novel of Spanish national identity ;; title: The struggle for identity and purpose in the Russian historical novel : From Pushkin to Tolstoy ;; title: The German historical novel ;; title: Modernism and beyond --; title: Fictitious histories.