The novel ranges
over Barbary, Persia, and Brazil,qtd. in
Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”.
Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
7
, Dec. 2001.
but centres on the career of
Sebastian
, sixteenth-century king of
Portugal, who in died in Africa in 1578, fighting against the Moors...