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Author | : H. Orel |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 1995-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230371493 |
Download The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel and illustrated his concept of the genre by writing a long series of novels dealing with medieval times, the Elizabethan Age and the 18th Century. Later novels written by his contemporaries and successors attracted smaller audiences. When Robert Louis Stevenson, in the early 1880s, enthusiastically expanded the boundaries of romantic fiction, he became a standard-bearer and an inspiration to many of his fellow-novelists: Walter Besant, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley John Weyman, Anthony Hope, Henry Rider Haggard, and Rafael Sabatini.
Author | : Elisabeth Wesseling |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789027222121 |
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This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, in the work of, among others, Julian Barnes, Jay Cantor, Robert Coover and Graham Swift.Wesseling also shows how postmodernist writers attempt to envisage alternative sequences for historical events. Deliberately distorting historical facts, authors of such uchronian fiction, like Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael R. Read, Salman Rushdie and Gunter Grass, imagine what history looks like from the perspective of the losers, rather than the winners.
Author | : Brander Matthews |
Publisher | : New York : Scribner's |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Luise MüHlbach |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 693 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1596057610 |
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He turned and looked at her with a benevolent smile. "Come hither, my child," said he. "You would speak with the emperor. I am he."The girl uttered a stifled cry, and falling on her knees, she hid her death-like face in her hands. For she had recognized her unknown protector. Yes, this noble man, who had proffered help and promised protection, this was the emperor, and to his face she had called him miser and tyrant!-from "Chapter XXXV: The Disguise Removed"In the constrained culture of 19th-century Europe, Luise M hlbach was thwarted in her desire to become a historian, so instead she wrote historical novels in her native German-more than 100 of them, most of which were bestsellers in Europe and many of which were translated into English, with great success.This 1865 novel, set among the intrigue of the court of Austrian emperor Joseph II, is a wonderful example of German literary realism, a movement to which M hlbach was an important contributor, though one frequently overlooked today. And it is a shining model of the fierce feminism M hlbach evinced in her life as well as her fiction-Empress Maria Theresa is a potent presence here, a beautifully realized womanly force.With deftly realized characters-male and female-and page-turning plots, M hlbach's stirring historical novels are ready to find a new readership today.Luise M hlbach was the pseudonym of German author LUISE MUHLBACH (1814-1873). Among her many works of historical fiction are A Conspiracy of the Carbonari, The Daughter of an Empress, Henry VIII and His Court, Marie Antoinette and Her Son, and Napoleon and Blucher.
Author | : Luise Mühlbach |
Publisher | : Dodo Press |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Louise Muhlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (1814-1873), an Austrian writer best known for her works of historical fiction. Among her famous works are: Napoleon and Blucher (1845), Joseph II. and His Court (1858), Henry VIII and His Court (1865), The Empress Josephine (1867), Frederick the Great and His Family (1867), Berlin and Sans- Souci; or Frederick the Great and His Friends (1867), The Merchant of Berlin (1867), Old Fritz and the New Era (1867), Marie Antoinette and Her Son (1867), Andreas Hofer (1868), Prince Eugene and His Times (1869), The Daughter of an Empress (1869), and A Conspiracy of the Carbonari (1896).
Author | : Brian Hamnett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199695040 |
Download The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : H. Dalley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137450096 |
Download The Postcolonial Historical Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history and fiction plays out in contemporary African and Australasian writing.
Author | : Anne R. Murray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-12-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781524654030 |
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Glimpses of the Past; Heritage of the Old South is an historical novel about the Old South during the Civil War. Few historical novels have presented the Old South in such a heartfelt manner with brutalities of the war. The author brings tragedy, devastation and conflict to life in the characters. Families struggled to survive then. The war was significant to both the North and the South. The thresholds of the war are felt strongly even today. The significant part of the main character was that he overcame the past to move forward in his life. Reminiscences of the past were less painful to him as he began to understand his purpose in life. Read how a determined young man survived the Civil War days. Explore the depths of how determination and stamina helped him. Discover his secret of life's accomplishments. Learn how he escaped the darkness within to grow beyond glimpses of the past.
Author | : M. Boccardi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2009-06-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230240801 |
Download The Contemporary British Historical Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition.
Author | : D. Wallace |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2004-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230505945 |
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The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat Barker.