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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe - Representations of Reality in History and Fiction (Paperback)
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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe - Representations of Reality in History and Fiction (Paperback)
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Even at the height of its popularity in the early nineteenth
century the historical novel faced criticism at many levels. After
its predominance in the 1810s and 1820s writers and historians
shunned it as a travesty of their respective disciplines. Even so,
the historical novel has frequently attracted a wide-ranging public
right up to the present day. Brian Hamnett examines key novels, by
authors including Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert,
Fontane, Galdos, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent
in this form of fiction and exposing the challenges writers faced
in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.
He argues that the historical novel in the nineteenth century was a
common European phenomenon with considerable interconnection of
themes and periods. Accordingly, the book ranges from the British
Isles and France through the Germanic territories, Italy and Spain,
to the Russian Empire, identifying the different objectives and
phases of the historical novel. Although historical novels did
appear in the two previous centuries, the form came to maturity in
the nineteenth century, a consequence of the developing nature of
history as a discipline distinct from literature and nhilosophy,
and the increasing primacy of the novel for writers and the reading
public. Yet, the frontiers between history and literature remained
blurred, and the two disciplines continued to influence one another
as each sought a faithful representation of human experience.
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