1st Edition
Acts of Modernity The Historical Novel and Effective Communication, 1814�1901
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 Montréal, Paris, New York, and London Conclusion: working the historical novel Bibliography Index
Biography
David Buchanan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, a tutor in the Centre for Humanities at Athabasca University, and a sessional instructor of English in the Department of Literature and Language at Concordia University of Edmonton.
