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Descendants of Waverley: Romancing History in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Descendants of Waverley: Romancing History in Contemporary Historical Fiction

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 161148782X
ISBN13: 9781611487824
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Aug 11 2016
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Descendants of Waverley examines contemporary novelists' combination of historical authority and narrative art to create the romance of history, authentic and accessible depictions of the past. Rooted in histories of the novel beginning in the eighteenth century, but challenging conventional theories that the novel erased the romance, the work treats Walter Scott as an important influence on the genre and analyzes the strategies used to romance history in the varied subgenres constituting current historical fiction.

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