Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The English novel in history, 1700-1780 The English novel in history, 1700-1780 John J. Richetti The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eighteenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral re… OL1830261W
Nelson's navy in fiction and film Nelson's navy in fiction and film Sue Parrill "This book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and 25 films and examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the history, mores and manners of the period and the extent to… OL18668845W
Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England Michael Davitt Bell Three major conventional figures dominated Hawthorne's romances: the noble Founding Father, the "narrow Puritan," and the rebellious daughter. Daniel Bell examines the ways in which Hawthorne used th… OL20632590W
Reinventing Liberty Reinventing Liberty Fiona Price Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and earl… OL20930390W
Constructing a World Constructing a World Martha Tuck Rozett "Taking its title from Umberto Eco's postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre… OL3285584W
Fiction as fact Fiction as fact Neil Longley York "Colonel Benjamin Henry Grierson led a cavalry expedition that General Ulysses S. Grant hoped would distract Confederate forces while the Union army made its move toward Vicksburg. In the spring of 1… OL3899872W
Speaking in the past tense Speaking in the past tense Herb Wyile Consists of interviews with eleven Canadian historical novelists. OL6003036W
On the Historical Novel On the Historical Novel Alessandro Manzoni "Alessandro Manzoni was a giant of nineteenth-century European literature whose I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1928) is ranked with War and Peace as marking the summit of the historical novel. Manz… OL644353W