Ladislav Nagy
Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance
Číslo: 1/2014
Periodikum: Prague Journal of English Studies
Klíčová slova: Historical fi ction; Tudory; novel; Walter Scott; György Lukács
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Anotace:
is article focuses on Walter Scott’s Waverley and its classifi cation as the founding
text of the historical novel by Georg Lukács. e author attempts to show that Lukács
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. e 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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text of the historical novel by Georg Lukács. e author attempts to show that Lukács
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. e 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.