The novelist as historian: Essays on the Victorian historical novel (Studies in English Literature, 88)

This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form of a collection of articles, the author presents an in-depth monographic study on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics. Acknowledgement 1. Of Kettledrums and Trumpets: The Early Victorian Followers of Scott 2. The Romancers and Historic Truth: The Question of Responsibility 3. The Novelist as Historian: An Unexplored Tract of Victorian Historiography 4. The Decline of a Literary Fashion: The Historical Romance After 1850 Further Reading Index