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A Novel Approaches prelude (3): Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley – The first historical novel? Part One

Nov 7, 2011

Sir Walter Scott (painted 1822) by Henry RaeburnIt has been said that the famous nineteenth century German historian Leopold von Ranke first turned to the study of history through reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott (see McGarry, White, 1963, p. 17).  Therefore...

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