British Historical Fiction before Scott


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In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.




The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan


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Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c.







Romantic Reassessment


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The Princeton University Library Chronicle


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Vol. 1- includes section "Biblia, devoted to the interests of the Friends of the Princeton Library," v. 11-