English Historical Novel

Avrom Fleishman is a retired professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University and is the author of numerous books, including The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading (both available from Johns Hopkins), The Condition of English, and New Class Culture.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Towards a theory of historical fictionChapter 2. OriginsChapter 3. ScottChapter 4. Dickens: Visions of revolutionChapter 5. Thackeray: Beyond Whig historyChapter 6. The late Victorian historical novelChapter 7. Hardy: The avoidance of historical fictionChapter 8. Experiment and renewalIndex

Provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel. -- Harriet Gilliam Clio