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Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel
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 different historical visions of the authors and the changing aesthetic tastes of the reader. Bragg focuses on Scott, William Harrison Ainsworth, and Edward Bulwer Lytton, identifying links between spatial representation and the historical novel’s multi-generic rendering of history and narrative. Even though their understanding of history and historical process could not be more different, all writers employed space and place to mirror narrative, stimulate discussion, interrogate historical inquiry, or otherwise comment beyond the rational, factual narrator’s point of view. Bragg also traces how landscape depictions in all three authors’ works inculcated heroic masculine values to show how a dominating theme of the genre endures even through widely differing versions of the form. In taking historical novels beyond the localized questions of political and regional context, Bragg reveals the genre’s relevance to general discussions about the novel and its development. Nineteenth-century readers of the novel understood historical fiction to be epic and serious, moral and healthful, patriotic but also universal. Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel takes this readership at its word and acknowledges the complexity and diversity of the form by examining one of its few continuous features: a flexibly metaphorical valuation of space and place.
                                                                                                                                                 

Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth Century British Historical Novel 1st Table of contents:

 Acknowledgements
Introduction History and “The Land of Romance”
What the Historical Novel Might Be: Toward an Inclusive Understanding
The Palimpsests of Narrative and Space
The Rhetoric of Contrasts and the Shape of a Genre
A Word on Genre and Gender (or “Didn’t Women Write Historical Novels?”)
Notes
1 “A Certain Kind of Space” Walter Scott and the Poetics of Historical Novel Space
“A Maximum of Elaboration”: Waverley and the Poetics of Space
Genre and the Text of Space: Waverley
Genre and the Text of Space: The Talisman and The Monastery
The “Splendid Theatre”: Stage Space in the Waverley Novel
“Violent Divisions”: Scott Country and the Critics
Notes
2 (Mis)Reading the Palimpsest Readers of Waverley Space
Reading Males, Leading Males: Waverley Space and the Hero
Reading Ruins: The Historians and Edie Ochiltree
“The Elementals”: Vanishing Points between Space and Narrative
“The Elementals”: The Mad Hermit and the Grotesque Boy
Comparison: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Spatialized Middle Way
Notes
3 “Architectural Incongruities” History and the Space of Contrast in the Novels of W. H. Ainsworth
Vivid Contrasts: Ainsworth’s Popular History
Basic Strategies: Structure Organizing Narrative
“The Skillful Architect” and the Gothic Structure of Romance
“In the Midst of All”: The Panorama in Ainsworth
Structures Full of “Good Things”
Comparison: Emma Robinson’s Haunted and Catholic Spaces
Notes
4 “The Humbler Task” Bulwer-Lytton and the Space of Archaeology
Space and Order: Teleology in Bulwer’s Pompeii
Historical Space: The Real and the Typical in Last Days and Harold
Comparison: Emma Marshall’s Real Space
Bulwer’s Theoretical Space
Comparison: Baring-Gould’s Theoretical Space
“I Can Well Judge from What I Have Seen”: Space and Masculine Discernment
Comparison and Legacy: Masculine Space and Readers in Stevenson and Whistler
“New Regions”: Bulwer’s Dream Lands and the Space of Fantasy
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited and Selected Works Consulted
Index

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