Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
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. Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
, Robert Browning |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Strickland | Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer
and more recently by Harriet Lee
and her sister
). AS
's pilgrims who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments, Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 7 . |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Louisa Stuart | The story recalls that of Chaucer
's Wyf of Bath's Tale. A Scottish chieftain has three ugly daughters: his formidable wife makes him marry the ugliest of all to his defeated, handsome enemy, instead... |
Education | Annie Tinsley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Underhill | Many of these tales are unequivocally charming for a modern reader, but not so Gaude Maria, a version of the story which Chaucer
used for his Prioress's Tale, about a poor widow's pious... |
Textual Production | Doreen Wallace | DW
followed this with two social-issue novels: So Long to Learn, 1936 (titled with a quotation from Chaucer
), a topical story about the tithe wars, and Old Father Antic, 1937, a story... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Williams | The framework of a group of cultured people standing for different points of view and exchanging ideas owes something to Thomas Love Peacock
's Headlong Hall, 1816 (also set in Wales), but Williams is... |
Leisure and Society | Jeanette Winterson | Believing strongly that no writer in English can be ignorant of English literature, JW
told an interviewer that she reads or re-reads for about five hours a day, choosing sometiimes obscure authors from Chaucer
to... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | The second part of the story gives excerpts of the diary, which makes heard the voice of an earlier Judith Shakespeare, a woman's writing (like that of Margaret Paston
) which also seeks to capture... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. ix - xv. x |
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