Acts Of Modernity: The Historical Novel And Effective Communication, 1814–1901 (Ashgate Series In Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Meaning-making: a history of reading practices -- 2 Heart of the matter: consequences of modernity in Clan Albin and Tales of My Landlord -- 3 Nation of readers: chapbook versions of The Heart of Mid-Lothian -- 4 How the West was one: historification from Waverley to The Pathfinder -- 5 Home and away: Leatherstocking reinvented in America and France -- 6 "Spiders in a pot": harnessing juggernaut in Le père Goriot -- 7 Industrial productions: from editions populaires to a people's history -- 8 Community lessons: Canadian tales of national progress -- 9 History in action: dramatizations at Montreal, Paris, New York, and London -- Conclusion: working the historical novel -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: David Buchanan
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 238 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1472425561
• | ISBN-13: 9781472425560