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Title The novelist as historian : Essays on the Victorian historical novel / James C. Simmons.
Edition Reprint 2015.
Publisher Berlin
Boston : De Gruyter Mouton
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Issued also in print.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally issued as thesis, University of California.
English
Content Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1. Of Kettledrums and Trumpets: The Early Victorian Followers of Scott -- 2. The Romancers and Historic Truth: The Question of Responsibility -- 3. The Novelist as Historian: An Unexplored Tract of Victorian Historiography -- 4. The Decline of a Literary Fashion: The Historical Romance After 1850 -- Further Reading -- Index
Series Studies in English Literature
88
Extent 1 online resource (68 pages).
Language English
Copyright Date ©1973
National Library system number 997010718022905171
MARC RECORDS
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