Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgement 3
3. Contents 5
4. 1. Of Kettledrums and Trumpets: The Early Victorian Followers of Scott 7
5. 2. The Romancers and Historic Truth: The Question of Responsibility 22
6. 3. The Novelist as Historian: An Unexplored Tract of Victorian Historiography 34
7. 4. The Decline of a Literary Fashion: The Historical Romance After 1850 55
8. Further Reading 64
9. Index 65