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ISBN 10: 023024629X
ISBN 13: 9780230246294
Author: A Stevens
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.
1 The Formation of a Genre
History and fiction in the late eighteenth century
Studies of the historical novel
Sociological literary history
The generic corpus
2 Historical Novels, 1762–1783
Generic cycles
The previous cycle
Thomas Leland and Horace Walpole
William Hutchinson and Clara Reeve
Sophia Lee
Gothic versus historical
3 The Historical Novel in the Circulating Library
Sophia Lee’s imitators
The circulating library
Genres, titles, and categories
Circulating library catalogs
Popularity and canonicity
4 Historical Novels, 1784–1813
Experiments and family resemblances
Settings
Romance features
Antiquarian features
Comic and political variations
Historical fiction before Scott
5 The Historical Novel in the Reviews
The development of the review
Reviews and historical fiction
Morality and young readers
History and character
Anachronism and pedantry
The ‘rules’ of historical fiction
6 Epilogue: Ivanhoe and Historical Fiction
Scott and his predecessors
Ivanhoe’s character-system
Simultaneity and multiplicity
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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Tags: A Stevens, British, Historical
