Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1. Of Kettledrums and Trumpets: The Early Victorian Followers of Scott -- 2. The Romancers and Historic Truth: The Question of Responsibility -- 3. The Novelist as Historian: An Unexplored Tract of Victorian Historiography -- 4. The Decline of a Literary Fashion: The Historical Romance After 1850 -- Further Reading -- Indexweiterlesen