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Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott
Fiona Price
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Description for Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott
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The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as ... Read more
The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474402965
SKU
V9781474402965
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99-5
About Fiona Price
Fiona Price is Professor of English Literature at the University of Chichester. She has published extensively on historical fiction, the Romantic novel and women's writing. Her latest publications include Revolutions in Taste: 1773-1818: Women Writers, The Aesthetics of Romanticism (2009) and Historical Writing in Britain, co-edited with Ben Dew (2014).
Reviews for Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott
Price's Reinventing Liberty is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on the early historical novel, Romantic-era fiction, and women writers and politics.
Anne H. Stevens, University of Nevada for Review of English Studies
Anne H. Stevens, University of Nevada for Review of English Studies