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Article: In the space between history and fiction -- the role of Walter Scott's fictional prefaces. (Literature).
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Sir Walter Scott for a long time had functioned in literary criticism as a novelist who facilitated development of the novel towards its realist form. This is not to say that he was regarded as a great realist writer; on the contrary, his deviations from realism had been frequently pointed to him. On the whole, however, it is valid to say that literary criticism valued him "as an accurate depictor of the past" (Kerr 1989: 1) and ignored those aspects of his novels that undermined the realistic illusion that he had first created. After the invalidation of the realist tradition critics began to notice that Scott's fiction apart from the more or less accurate pictures of the ...
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