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The book restores to view an alternative genealogy of the historical novel by assembling a diverse group of writers not often read together—including Laurence Sterne, William Stukeley, Charlotte Lennox, William Borlase, Sarah Scott, Horace Walpole, Walter Scott, Joseph Strutt, Thomas Pownall, and Ann Radcliffe—who shared an interest in the conjectural practices and concepts such as fictionality, probability, and verisimilitude that were central both the antiquaries' speculative reconstruction of the past and to early development of the novel. The writers featured in Tangible Pasts did not seek to exorcize, but rather took inspiration from antiquarianism's disordered, additive, conjectural, and centrifugal impulses. 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