The Historical Novel

Abstract

At the beginning of the 19th c., the historical novel was largely
popularized by various European novelists such as S.W. Scott (1771-
1832), L. Henry Balzac (1799-1850), Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), and the
American novelist James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). The historical
novel is known as a genre that differs from the previous types of novel
writing.
Indeed, after the decline of the French Leader Napoleon, Waverly
(1814) was written by Sir Walter Scott whose novels aroused interest in
Scottish history .
This study tackles the nature of this genre; its qualities, significance,
and how much it is related or differed from both history and historicism,
novel, and some other genres as drama and epic.