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The historical novel (Scott (1771-1832) (Scott and Manzoni (. (Used…
The historical novel
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Detailed description of manners, buildings and institutions
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It is a literary genre that combine fictional and historical elements. (strong dramatic plot lines and credible human psychology, within a setting characterized by specific historical details)
Reflects the Romantic interest in the past, particularly the historical period of the Middle Ages.
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Scott (1771-1832)
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Main achievement was to get people to realize that history was not just a list of political and religious events, but the product of human decisions.
Introduced a new concept of history based on the lives of ordinary people, rather than on those of kings and noblemrn.
Interested in the moments when an important historical crisis caused personal problems in individuals or in groups: Waverley and Ivanhoe, his most important works, describe these conflicts.
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Scott and Manzoni
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Set their novels in historical contexts that point out the political and cultural conflicts between, respectively, Scotland and England, and Lombardy and Spain.
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He took the past of Scotland as his main subject and mixed it with imaginative adventures. He blended highly figurative language with dialect to portray real and living characters, belonging to the aristocracy and the humble classes.
Most of his novel follow a pattern, called "journey": a traveller, that is Ivanhoe or Waverley, moves from a safe situation inside an ethnic group, comes into contact with another ethnic group and share their life for a time. in the end he will return from he came with a different experience of life which will enable him to mediate between two rival group.