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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9936
Title: A Study in Historical Fiction: John Ford's Perkin Warbeck and Mary Shelley's The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Authors: Gasse, Paulette Rosanne
Advisor: Morton, R.
Department: English
Keywords: English Language and Literature;English Language and Literature
Publication Date: Sep-1981
Abstract: <p>This thesis is a detailed study of two fictional works, John Ford's Perkin Warbeck and Mary Shelley's The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, which deal with the star; of the Royal Pretender Perkin Warbeck. It strives through these to show how historical fiction is written and how it relates to an author's own time and interests. It also glances at how historical fiction relates to posterity.</p>
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9936
Identifier: opendissertations/5011
6031
2080715
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