What is your Name? The Question of Identity in Some of the Waverley Novels by W. F. H. Nicolaisen

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An Overview of Justice in Sir Walter Scott Waverley Novels: The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Enrique García Díaz

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Un roman historique in-ra-table : parodie ou méthode critique ? by Marie-Agathe Tilliette

“…The European success of the Waverley novels in the 1820s led to a numerous production of historical novels, all built on the same Scottian model. …”
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Le Roman Historique contemporain face à « la scotticité ». by Soundous Chouar

“…Le roman historique doit beaucoup à Walter Scott, un écrivain écossais célèbre par sa série Waverley Novels. Cet article propose de voir l’étendue et l’influence de ce précurseur dans le roman historique contemporain à travers la recherche des critères de la scotticité dans Alger ville blanche de Régine Deforges, l’étude s’appuie sur les analyses de Louis Maigron dans essai sur l’influence de Sir Walter Scott et George Lukacs dans Le Roman Historique, elle détermine aussi le statut de l’Histoire dans la littérature.…”
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“This Rude Chivalry of the Wilderness”: Chivalry and Native Americans in Cooper’s and Irving’s American Novels by Pauline Pilote

“…This book in particular, which takes medieval England as its background, was probably one of the most widely read of the Waverley Novels in America. The enthusiasm of the American readership in the early decades of the 19th century seems to reveal a general attraction for the European Middle Ages. …”
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Classical reception in Sir Walter Scott's Scottish novels. The role of Greece and Rome in the making of historic-national fiction by D'Andrea, P

“…</p> <p>Building upon recent work that views the novelist against the background of the classical tradition, this study intends to uncover the destabilising role that Graeco-Roman elements play in eight of the Waverley novels, from the theoretical basis of reader response criticism.…”