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Harry E. Shaw · 1983
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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Shaw, Harry E. (1983), The Forms of Historical Fiction, Cornell University Press - licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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Sir Walter Scott and His Successors
The Forms of
Historical Fiction
PREFACE 9
A NOTE ON CITATIONS OF SCOTT’S WORKS 15
1. AN APPROACH TO THE HISTORICAL NOVEL 19 2. HISTORY As PASTORAL, HISTORY AS A SOURCE OF DRAMA 51
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