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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| Language: | English |
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Charles University
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2014-0014 |