AINSWORTH, William Harrison.

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The Novels. An attractive set of Ainsworth's novels, in contemporary bindings. The collection contains illustrations by John Gilbert, the caricaturist George Cruikshank, and Hablot Knight Browne, under his pseudonym Phiz, the latter two of which also illustrated the novels of Charles Dickens."Ainsworth contributed significantly to the development of the literary novel after Scott, and to the new urban gothic of Dickens, Reynolds, and Stevenson. His darkly romantic and essentially melodramatic approach to history... can still be seen in popular narratives today, such as, for example, TV shows like Rome and The Tudors, and historical blockbusters like Braveheart and Titanic" (Carver, pp. 13-15).

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