Historicizing the British Historical Fiction in the Romantic Period: between the Enlightenment Negotiation and the Postmodern Responses

本文论证了将英国浪漫主义历史小说，特别是沃尔特·司各特的作品与19世纪小说经典相结合的必要性和适当性。这种整合是通过对民族故事等当代小说类型的比较阅读和对斯科特等人的综合社会观的分析来实现的，后者预测了维多利亚时代的社会小说。本研究还探讨了斯科特在呈现多层次历史视角方面的创新和复杂的叙事技巧，并将其与近期似乎是对斯科特的回应的后现代历史小说进行了比较。通过这些观察和比较，该研究更新了斯科特作为英国小说史上以及历史小说作为一种独特文学类型的发展中的重要人物的地位

This study demonstrates the necessity and the appropriateness of integrating the British Romantic historical fiction, especially the works of Walter Scott, with the established canon of nineteenth-century novels. This integration is managed through the comparative reading of contemporary novelistic genres such as national talesand the analysis of the comprehensive social viewpoint of Scott and others, which anticipates Victorian social novels. This study also explores Scott’s innovative and sophisticated narrative technique in presenting multi-layered historical perspectives and offers a comparative view of his technique with more recent postmodern historical novels that seem to be a response to Scott. By making these observations and comparisons, the study updates Scott’s position as a major figure both in the history of British novels and in the development of historical fiction as a distinct literary genre