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Sir Walter Scott's licentia historica--the historical novel as a displaced romance.(Literature)(Critical Essay)

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From: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of EnglishStudies
Date: 20040101
Author:Maciulewicz, Joanna

ABSTRACT

The novelistic genre from its origin has functioned in between two discourses: fictional and factual. On the one hand it shares numerous characteristics with romance, from which it has striven to distance itself, on the other it emulated historical forms of writing in the attempt to borrow some of the credibility enjoyed by history. Novelists endeavoured to provide a realistic picture of reality, romance writers indulged in the flights of fancy. Novelists were the chroniclers of the mercantile world of the middle classes, romance writers glorified the chivalric deeds ...

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