The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Brian Hamnett
Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdos, 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.
Brian Hamnett was born in Colchester 1942. He studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge University from 1961 to 1967. He has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Reading, and the University of Strathclyde. He is currently a Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of Essex. His fields of interest include Iberian and Latin-American history and literature; nineteenth- and twentieth-century (and beyond) literature, particularly in relation to history.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199695041 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199695040 |
| Title | The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe |
| Author | Brian Hamnett |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2011-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
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