Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel
This article focuses on Walter Scott’s Waverley and its classification as the founding text of the historical novel by Georg Lukacs. The author attempts to show that Lukacs takes Scott too much at his word and posits Waverley in the tradition of the English historical novel as it developed from Defo...
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| description | This article focuses on Walter Scott’s Waverley and its classification as the founding text of the historical novel by Georg Lukacs. The author attempts to show that Lukacs takes Scott too much at his word and posits Waverley in the tradition of the English historical novel as it developed from Defoe and Fielding, while neglecting the close ties that Waverley has with marginalized genres such as romance. The author also argues that rather than being an expression of class consciousness, Waverley is an attempt to justify a certain change in political attitude, from radicalism to conservatism |
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| spelling | doaj.art-04d22f8ab24a466b8a3fe6aa1fdead012024-04-02T18:48:26ZengCharles UniversityPrague Journal of English Studies2336-26852014-09-013171710.2478/pjes-2014-0014pjes-2014-0014Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical NovelNagy LadislavThis article focuses on Walter Scott’s Waverley and its classification as the founding text of the historical novel by Georg Lukacs. The author attempts to show that Lukacs takes Scott too much at his word and posits Waverley in the tradition of the English historical novel as it developed from Defoe and Fielding, while neglecting the close ties that Waverley has with marginalized genres such as romance. The author also argues that rather than being an expression of class consciousness, Waverley is an attempt to justify a certain change in political attitude, from radicalism to conservatismhttps://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2014-0014historical fictiontudorynovelwalter scottgyörgy lukács |
| spellingShingle | Nagy Ladislav Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel Prague Journal of English Studies historical fiction tudory novel walter scott györgy lukács |
| title | Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel |
| title_full | Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel |
| title_fullStr | Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel |
| title_short | Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel |
| title_sort | historical fiction as a mixture of history and romance towards the genre definition of the historical novel |
| topic | historical fiction tudory novel walter scott györgy lukács |
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