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050 00 $aPN3441$b.H26 2011
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100 1 $aHamnett, Brian R.
245 14 $aThe historical novel in nineteenth-century Europe :$brepresentations of reality in history and fiction /$cBrian Hamnett.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2011.
300 $aix, 332 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 8 $aBrian 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [308]-322) and index.
505 00 $tThe historical novel as genre and problem: an analytical and critical examination.$tAn exploration of the categories: history, narrative, the novel and romance ;$tHistory and fiction: the trials of separation and reunion ;$tThe German Sturm und Drang, historical drama, and early romantic fiction ;$tScottish flowering: turbulence or Enlightenment? ;$tRomanticism and the historical novel ;$tThe historians' response to the historical novel ;$tHistory and invention in the Italian question --$tInternal contradictions and unstable form : a comparative study of the historical novel's dilemma.$tWas the historical novel at mid-century in crisis? ;$tIs there a way out? Two experiments in myth and history ;$tBenito Pérez Galdós and the novel of Spanish national identity ;$tThe struggle for identity and purpose in the Russian historical novel : From Pushkin to Tolstoy ;$tThe German historical novel ;$tModernism and beyond --$tFictitious histories.
650 0 $aHistorical fiction, European$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.