{"product_id":"the-forms-of-historical-fiction-sir-walter-scott-and-his-successors-9781501723261","title":"The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Harry E. Shaw\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Historical Events\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry Shaw's aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations.\u003c\/b\u003e His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining major works by Sir Walter Scott--the first modern historical novelist--and by Balzac, Hugo, Anatole France, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46471059931287,"sku":"9781501723261","price":2951.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501723261.webp?v=1769307647","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-forms-of-historical-fiction-sir-walter-scott-and-his-successors-9781501723261","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}