English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1233 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Scott and the Historical Novel
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The idea
Scott, already famous as a poet, published Waverley anonymously in eighteen fourteen: a young Englishman, before the Jacobite rising of seventeen forty-five, is torn between the Crown and the Jacobite cause. The critic Lukács argued that Scott first treated history as a distinct social world.
In practice
History as a lived setting.
Where people slip
The Lukács claim is his own.
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