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A Novel Approaches prelude (8): The Nineteenth Century Historical Novel – An educative genre

Nov 18, 2011

Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge by Frederick Barnard In the eighteenth century historical fiction was a familiar genre predominantly in France but soon to move over to England as well in the form of translations.  It was, however, often considered a slightly...

A Novel Approaches prelude (5): Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley – The first historical novel? Part Three

Nov 11, 2011

 Drawing of Edward Waverleyfrom Sir Walter Scott’sWaverley books.   The Jacobite rising of 1745 was one of the last in a series of rebellions aimed at returning the descendants of the House of Stuart to the throne.  Although for a while Charles Edward Stuart...

A Novel Approaches prelude (4): Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley – The first historical novel? Part Two

Nov 9, 2011

Waverley is not a book ‘merely for amusement’ as Sir Walter Scott himself tells us but one designed to make the story ‘intelligible’, through a knowledge and learning of past events, culture and politics.  Thus Scott begs pardon for ‘plaguing them [his readers] so...

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 Raeburn It 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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