Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: History and "The Land of Romance"--1 "A Certain Kind of Space": Walter Scott and the Poetics of Historical Novel Space -- 2 (Mis)Reading the Palimpsest: Readers of Waverley Space -- 3 "Architectural Inc…
Demonstrating that nineteenth-century historical novelists played their rational, trustworthy narrators against shifting and untrustworthy depictions of space and place, Tom Bragg argues that the result was a flexible form of fiction that could be modified to reflect both the di…
"Demonstrating that nineteenth-century historical novelists played their rational, trustworthy narrators against shifting and untrustworthy depictions of space and place, Tom Bragg argues that the result was a flexible form of fiction that could be modified to reflect both the d…
1. "A certain kind of space" : Walter Scott and the poetics of historical novel space -- 2. (Mis)reading the palimpsest : readers of Waverley space -- 3. "Architectural incongruities" : history and the space of contrast in the novels of W.H. Ainsworth -- 4. "The humbler task" : …
History and "The land of romance"--"A certain kind of space": Walter Scott and the poetics of historical novel space -- (Mis)reading the palimpsest: readers of Waverley space -- "Architectural incongruities": history and the space of contrast in the novels of W.H. Ainsworth -- "…
"Demonstrating that nineteenth-century historical novelists played their rational, trustworthy narrators against shifting and untrustworthy depictions of space and place, Tom Bragg argues that the result was a flexible form of fiction that could be modified to reflect both the d…
"Demonstrating that nineteenth-century historical novelists played their rational, trustworthy narrators against shifting and untrustworthy depictions of space and place, Tom Bragg argues that the result was a flexible form of fiction that could be modified to reflect both the d…