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Walter Scott 瓦尔特.司各特(1771-1832) The creator and a great master of the historical novel The Historical Novel 历史小说 Definition It is a literary genre characterized by the attempt to fuse strong dramatic plot lines and credible human psychology, within a setting constituted from specific historical detail. The Historical Novel 历史小说 The Founder of Historical Novel It was Sir Walter Scott, whose numerous novels starting with Waverley, unleashed a passion for the historical novel among readers and writers that remains strong to this day. Scott’s main achievement was to get people to realize that history was not just a list of political and religious dates denoting events that seemed to have happened of their own accord; instead he showed how history was the product of human decisions, human drama. Major works Novels on History of Scotland（The earliest and largest group of Scott’s historical novels） Waverley 《威弗利》 Old Morality 《清教徒》 Rob Roy 《罗伯·罗伊》 The Heart of Midlothian 《弥德洛西恩的心》 The best: Rob Roy 《罗伯·罗伊》 Major works Novels on English History The best: Ivanhoe 《艾凡赫》/《劫后英雄传 》 Major works Novels on the History of Other European Countries (France) The best: Quentin Durward 《昆丁·达沃德》/《惊婚记》 Jane Austen 简·奥斯丁 (1775-1817) the first important English woman novelist the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle class people and of which there are many fine examples in latter English fiction Major Works Sense and Sensibility 《理智与情感》 (1811) Pride and Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》 (1813) Northanger Abbey 《诺桑觉寺》 (1814) Mansfield Park 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》 (1814) Emma 《爱玛》 (1815) Persuasion 《劝导》 (1818) Writing Features 1 Jane Austen is one of the realistic novelists. She drew vivid realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels. Austen’s work has a very narrow literary field. She confines herself to small country parishes, whose simple