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Changing Attitudes Toward a Literary Genre, 1814-1920
Harold Orel
ISBN: 9780333607626
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
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This text traces the development of reading tastes during the 19th century, and describes how Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel. It features nine other novelists in addition to Scott, among them, Walter Besant, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rafael Sabatini.
Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel and illustrated his concept of the genre by writing a long series of novels dealing with medieval times, the Elizabethan Age, and the 18th century. Later novels written by his contemporaries and successors attracted smaller audiences. When Robert Louis Stevenson, in the early 1880s, expanded the boundaries of romantic fiction, he became the standard-bearer and inspiration to many of his fellow novelists: Walter Besant, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley John Weyman, Anthony Hope, Henry Rider Haggard and Rafael Sabatini.
| ISBN | 0333607627 | | Pages | 196 | | ISBN13 | 9780333607626
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 363 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Height (mm) | 222 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 144 | | Publication date | 15 Feb 1995 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 823.009 | | Academic level | General, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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Introduction - The Scott Legacy - The Emphasis on History in the Historical Novel - Didactic Elements in the Historical Novel - Stevenson and the Historical Romance - Robert Louis Stevenson and The Masters of Ballantrae (1888) - Walter Besant and Dorothy Foster (1884) - Richard Doddridge Blackmore and Springhaven (1887) - Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch ('Q') and The Splendid Spur (1889) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The White Company (1891) Stanley John Weyman and A Gentleman of France (1893) Anthony Hope and Simon Dale - Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Eric Brighteyes (1898) - Rafael Sabatini and The Sea-Hawk (1915) - Coda: The Great War and After - Footnotes - Suggestions for Further Reading - Index
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