The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 write by Richard Maxwell. This book was released on 2012-05-10. The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the French invention and the Scottish re-invention of historical fiction prepared the genre's popularity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe
The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe write by Brian Hamnett. This book was released on 2011-11-24. The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe available 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.
Revolution and the Historical Novel
Revolution and the Historical Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revolution and the Historical Novel write by John McWilliams. This book was released on 2017-12-15. Revolution and the Historical Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John McWilliams has written the first, much needed account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution have informed masterpieces of the historical novel. The jolting sense of historical change caused by the French Revolution led to an immense readership for a new kind of fiction, centered on revolution, counter-revolution and warfare, which soon came to be called “the historical novel.” During the turbulent wake of The Declaration of the Rights of Man, promptly followed by the phenomenon of Napoleon Bonaparte, the historical novel thus served as a literary hybrid in the most positive sense of that often-dismissive term. It enabled readers to project personal hopes and anxieties about revolutionary change back into national history. While immersed in the fictive lives of genteel, often privileged heroes, readers could measure their own political convictions against the wavering loyalties of their counterparts in a previous but still familiar time. McWilliams provides close readings of some twenty historical novels, from Scott and Cooper through Tolstoy, Zola and Hugo, to Pasternak and Lampedusa, and ultimately to Marquez and Hilary Mantel, but with continuing regard to historical contexts past and present. He traces the transformation of the literary conventions established by Scott’s Waverley novels, showing both the continuities and the changes needed to meet contemporary times and perspectives. Although the progressive hopes imbedded in Scott’s narrative form proved no longer adaptable to twentieth century carnage and the rise of totalitarianism, the meaning of any single novel emerges through comparison to the tradition of its predecessors. A foreword and epilogue explore the indebtedness of McWilliams’s perspective to the Marxist scholarly tradition of Georg Lukacs and Frederic Jameson, while defining his differences from them. This is a scholarly work of no small ambition and achievement.
Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel
Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel write by Tom Bragg. This book was released on 2016-03-31. Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demonstrating that nineteenth-century historical novelists played their rational, trustworthy narrators against shifting and untrustworthy depictions of space and place, Tom Bragg argues that the result was a flexible form of fiction that could be modified to reflect both the different historical visions of the authors and the changing aesthetic tastes of the reader. Bragg focuses on Scott, William Harrison Ainsworth, and Edward Bulwer Lytton, identifying links between spatial representation and the historical novel's multi-generic rendering of history and narrative. Even though their understanding of history and historical process could not be more different, all writers employed space and place to mirror narrative, stimulate discussion, interrogate historical inquiry, or otherwise comment beyond the rational, factual narrator's point of view. Bragg also traces how landscape depictions in all three authors' works inculcated heroic masculine values to show how a dominating theme of the genre endures even through widely differing versions of the form. In taking historical novels beyond the localized questions of political and regional context, Bragg reveals the genre's relevance to general discussions about the novel and its development. Nineteenth-century readers of the novel understood historical fiction to be epic and serious, moral and healthful, patriotic but also universal. Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel takes this readership at its word and acknowledges the complexity and diversity of the form by examining one of its few continuous features: a flexibly metaphorical valuation of space and place.
The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era
The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era write by Susan Brantly. This book was released on 2017-02-17. The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past, demonstrating how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. It traces how concerns of the postmodern era such as critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process.
