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Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott

Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott

Price, Fiona

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

Literary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 1474402968
ISBN13: 9781474402965
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Apr 13 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Redefines the British historical novel as a key site in the construction of 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. 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. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and it positions Scott in relation to this tradition.

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