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Clare A. Simmons.
Reversing the Conquest: History and Myth in 19th-Century British Literature.
Published New Brunswick: Rutgers U.P., 1990.
ISBN 0813515556.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: in the USA.
Size: 157×234×24mm.
Page count: ix,258pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is stained, and ragged on its edges, especially at the top of the spine; the book itself doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price $59.00]
Weight without packaging: 637g.

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Discusses ways in which the Victorians adapted Anglo-Saxon and Norman history and culture to support their own historiographical purposes.

Contents: Earlier conceptions of Saxons & Norman; 19th‑c. views of history; The condition of England — Richard & John; Threat to religion — Henry II & Becket; Romans & Teutons — William & Harold; The conquest reversed — King Alfred & Queen Victoria.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 13pp
Index: yes

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