Reinventing Liberty / Fiona Price.

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Price, Fiona L [author.]

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TextSeries: Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism | Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2016]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2016]Description: 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781474402965
9781474402972

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810/820

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PR442 .P675 2016

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Contents:

Ancient liberties -- The labours of history -- Uneasy alliance : liberty and the nation -- Conserving histories : chivalry, science and liberty -- The end of history? Scott, his precursors and the violent past.

Summary: "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 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."-- Unedited summary from book.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index.

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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 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."-- Unedited summary from book.

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