Reinventing Liberty :
Price, Fiona,
Reinventing Liberty : Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott / Fiona Price. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2016 - 1 online resource (256 p.) : 1 B/W illustrations - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ancient Liberties -- 2. The Labours of History -- 3. Uneasy Alliances: Liberty and the Nation -- 4. Conserving Histories: Chivalry, Science and Liberty -- 5. The End of History? Scott, His Precursors and the Violent Past -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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Redefines the British historical novel as a key site in the construction of British national identityThe 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. Returning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, 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, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and it positions Scott in relation to this tradition.Key FeaturesRecovers the richness of the historical novel and history writing before Walter Scott, including the contribution of women writers to this debateExplores how historical fiction probes anxieties at the rise of commerce, the question of empire, and radical political changeRewrites our understanding of Scott and his relation to the earlier British historical novel
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license:
In English.
9781474402972
2016288169
Commerce in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
Liberty in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Literary Studies.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
PR442 / .P675 2016 PR442 / .P675 2016
823.0810906
Reinventing Liberty : Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott / Fiona Price. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2016 - 1 online resource (256 p.) : 1 B/W illustrations - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ancient Liberties -- 2. The Labours of History -- 3. Uneasy Alliances: Liberty and the Nation -- 4. Conserving Histories: Chivalry, Science and Liberty -- 5. The End of History? Scott, His Precursors and the Violent Past -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
Redefines the British historical novel as a key site in the construction of British national identityThe 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. Returning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, 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, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and it positions Scott in relation to this tradition.Key FeaturesRecovers the richness of the historical novel and history writing before Walter Scott, including the contribution of women writers to this debateExplores how historical fiction probes anxieties at the rise of commerce, the question of empire, and radical political changeRewrites our understanding of Scott and his relation to the earlier British historical novel
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license:
In English.
9781474402972
2016288169
Commerce in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
Liberty in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Literary Studies.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
PR442 / .P675 2016 PR442 / .P675 2016
823.0810906