Reinventing Liberty : Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott
by
Fiona Price
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1474402968
ISBN-13
9781474402965
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 30th, 2016
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
544 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 29.70 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Returning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity.
The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott''s fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as a ''land of liberty'' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition.
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