The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe

The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Representations of Reality in History and Fiction

by Brian Hamnett

332 pages· 2011· ISBN 9780199695041
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Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdâos, 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.

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