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The Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars: 20 Historical Novels - Twenty Historical Novels of Exile Restoration Intrigue and Post-Waterloo Europe - cover

The Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars: 20 Historical Novels - Twenty Historical Novels of Exile Restoration Intrigue and Post-Waterloo Europe

Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, L. Mühlbach, Eleanor C. Price, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Leo Tolstoy, Frederick Whishaw, Max Pemberton, Henry Seton Merriman, G. A. Henty, James Grant, Charles Downer Hazen, Warwick Deeping

Translator Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude, F. Jordan, W. Binet, John B. Larner

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

The Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars: 20 Historical Novels gathers a wide-ranging nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reimagining of Europe in the shadow of imperial conquest. Across romance, adventure narrative, political chronicle, military fiction, mystery-inflected storytelling, and psychological realism, these works trace the unsettled consequences of revolution, restoration, nationalism, and social change. Battlefield memory and courtly intrigue stand beside tales of exile, espionage, divided loyalties, and private lives reshaped by public catastrophe. The volume's breadth makes it an unusually rich literary record of how the Napoleonic age persisted in the historical imagination. Its contributors include major European novelists and prolific writers of popular historical fiction, whose national traditions bring French, British, German, Russian, and transnational perspectives into productive contact. Their collective work participates in the nineteenth century's cultivation of the historical novel, a form through which readers encountered the past as both adventure and political inquiry. Varied attitudes toward empire, monarchy, war, and national identity illuminate how Napoleonic history could be remembered as triumph, trauma, warning, or source of romance. Recommended for students, historians, and lovers of classic fiction, this anthology offers a valuable opportunity to compare narrative methods and ideological perspectives within one volume. Its twenty novels invite readers to examine the long cultural aftermath of war while appreciating the enduring power of historical storytelling.
Available since: 12/04/2023.
Print length: 9400 pages.

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