British Historical Fiction before Scott
British Historical Fiction before Scott

Author: A. Stevens

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-04-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0230275303

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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.

Novels in English
Novels in English

Author: John Graham

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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No scholar examining the development of the novel of sentiment, the gothic novel, or the silver fork school can ignore the extra- ordinary collection of fiction at Corvey. The library contains over 2,100 novels in English, most issued between 1796 and 1834, with the highest concentration of very rare items during the first decade of the nineteenth century. Most university libraries in America and the United Kingdom contain not a single item by many of these once popular novelists whose works lie at Corvey.