What is it about?
This book examines the historical novels published in the fifty or so years before Walter Scott's Waverley in 1814. These novels taken as a group shaped the contours of one of fiction's most enduring subgenres.
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Why is it important?
This work looks at a large corpus of texts, 85 historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, rather than just looking at the most popular or canonical texts. It also examines the role of reviewers and circulating libraries in shaping the genre.
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This page is a summary of: British Historical Fiction before Scott, January 2010, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9780230275300.
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