Acts of Modernity : The Historical Novel and Effective Communication, 1814?1901 (Hardcover)

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 pere 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 Montreal, Paris, New York, and London Conclusion: working the historical novel Bibliography Index