History and the Novel - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0859913228 ISBN 13 : 9780859913225

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 1991

Synopsis

This volume is devoted to examples of the ways fiction employs historicl references. The first paper looks at reference to paintings across a wide range of novels; subsequent contributions focus more specifically on Waverley, Little Dorrit, Hardy's last novels, Ulysses, Orlando and Cousin Bette. Boydell & Brewer are pleased to announce that they will be publishing for the English Association the annual volume Essays and Studies, with effect from 1991.The seven essays in this collection look at different ways in which novelists may (or may not) use historical reference in order to achieve their aims.LEONEE ORMOND (King's College, London) Painting and the PastCLAIRE LAMONT (Newcastle) Waverley and the Battle of CullodenANGUS EASSON (Salford) A Novel Scarcely Historical? Time and History in Dickens's Little DorritTERENCE WRIGHT (Newcastle) Space, Time and Paradox: The Sense of History in Hardy's Last NovelsANDREW GIBSON (Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, London) `History, All That': RevivalHistoriography and Literary Strategy in the `Cyclops' episode in UlyssesAVRIL HORNER (Salford) Virginia Woolf, History andthe Metaphors of OrlandoSCOTT McCRACKEN (Salford) Cousin Bette: Balzac and the Historiography of Difference

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859913228
• ISBN 13: 9780859913225
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Éditeur: Easson Angus
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible