British Historical Fiction before Scott

Authors

Anne H. Stevens, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Editors

Anne Mellor and Clifford Siskin

Document Type

Monograph

Publication Date

5-2010

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract

In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley, dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.

Keywords

English literature--Research; Historical fiction; Library circulation and loans

Disciplines

Fiction | History | Intellectual History | Literature in English, British Isles | Nonfiction

Language

English

Comments

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

Permissions

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Repository Citation

Stevens, A. H. (2010). British Historical Fiction before Scott. In Anne Mellor and Clifford Siskin, Palgrave Macmillan.