‘Waverley’ is the title of the first prose novel by which British historical novelist/poet?
Waverley (novel) between the eighteenth-century novel of manners, where social realities are described with little attention to diachronic change, and the eruption of history in the lives of communities, as occurs in historical novels. Furthermore, that "Waverley" marks an important watershed is firmly stated in Lukács' opening sentence, that "The historical novel arose at the beginning of the nineteenth century at about the time of Napoleon's collapse." Waverley (novel) Waverley is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). Published anonymously in 1814 as Scott's first venture into prose fiction, it is often regarded as the first historical novel in the western
Waverley (novel) of his ignorance, perhaps of literature, but more certainly of all things Scottish. This hostility reaches academic circles, as is made evident by Allan Massie's lecture "The Appeal of Scott to the Practising Novel", the inaugural lecture at the 1991 Scott conference. Defence of Scott subsumes a defence of a national culture against the attacks of Englishness. Others have, however, suggested that this misrepresents Forster's case. Georg Lukács re-established Scott as a serious novelist. Lukács is most adamant in his belief that "Waverley" is the first major historical novel of modern times. This is clear from the distinction he draws