Walter Scott, a founder of historical novel – his life and work

Walter Scott, a founder of historical novel – his life and work
Content

Introduction

Section 1. Theoretical and methodological grounds for studying W. Scott's work in the novel genre
1.1 Romanticism as a literary trend
1.2 A brief overview of the biography of Walter Scott
1.3 W. Scott's mastery of the historical novel genre
Section 2. Innovating the Creative method of Walter Scott
2.1 Walter Scott – the founder of the historical novel in its modern sense
2.2 Analysis of the historical work of Walter Scott "Ivanhoe"
Conclusion
List of literature
Introduction

The relevance and importance of the topic is due to the fact that Walter Scott is an innovator in the literature of the XIX century, namely, the founder of the historical novel, one of the most popular genre varieties.

It was in historical novels that the literary genius of Walter Scott was most fully manifested. First, he always placed his characters in the very vortex of historical events, they became an integral part of them, a link in the general chain of life patterns. Secondly, Scott was a master of dialogue and easily reflected on a piece of paper the style of both the Scottish vernacular and the aristocrats and knights of the Middle Ages. Third, the feature of the novels was that a great emphasis was placed on the role in the history of the common people, and not the powerful of this world, which was contrary to the literary tradition of that time. Finally, the success of Walter Scott's novels is due to their unique language, vivid descriptions, and easy style. It was also highly appreciated in Russia.
All of this makes it possible to speak about the relevance of our chosen topic in the study of Scott's creative method.
From the works of Russian literary critics and writers, which we will rely on in our research, we can distinguish the following::
- articles by A. S. Pushkin, V. G. Belinsky, A. Anikst ("History of English Literature", 1956), D. Urnov (1989), I. Shaitanov (1991), N. B. Mikhalskaya (chapter in "History of World Literature"), A. Belsky's comments to the novel under study, L. Kiseleva ("Walter Scott in the Interpretation of Russian Archaists", 2001);
- monographs: A. A. Belsky ("The English Novel of 1800-1810", 1975), A. A. Elistratova ("History of English Literature", 1953), B. G. Reizov ("The Work of Walter Scott", 1965), A. Dolinin ("History Dressed in a Novel", 1983), etc.
Among foreign critics, we should mention the books translated into Russian by D. Dyches "Walter Scott "(1987), H. Pearson "Walter Scott" (1983); the article by Walter Scott himself "About Walpole's "Castle of Otranto".
The aim of the work is to identify innovative features in the work of Walter Scott on the example of the novel "Ivanhoe".
To achieve this goal, the following tasks are solved::

1. 
   Describe Romanticism as a historical and literary trend.
   
2. 
   Give a general overview of the work of Walter Scott.
   
3. 
   To reveal the ideological and artistic originality of the writer's creative method on the example of the novel "Ivanhoe".
   
4. 
   Identify innovative features in the work of Walter Scott.
   

The object of research of the course work is to determine the innovation of Walter Scott as the creator of the historical novel.
The subject of the research is the historical novel "Ivanhoe"by Walter Scott.
V. G. Belinsky, as a merit of Walter Scott, who is one of the creators of the modern European historical novel, noted the writer's consideration of the past not as a biography of individual heroes, but as a broad stream of popular movements, and, most importantly, individual historical events in development, in movement.
V. G. Belinsky saw the connection of historical life with private life as the reason for the great popularity of W. Scott at the beginning of the century: "To give a historical direction to the art of the nineteenth century meant to guess the secret of modern life with genius" [4, 278].
It should be noted that the attitude to Scott abroad is sometimes much more critical.
And if Stendhal, A. Panin, C. Merimet, Charles de Reliosa and others wrote enthusiastically about the historical novels of Scott, then the classic E. Jouy protested against the general enthusiasm for the historical novels of W. Scott in 1823. He wrote that the works of W. Scott have two major drawbacks: the first is that they are completely devoid of" philosophy " (that is, an assessment of historical phenomena from an educational point of view). He has no morals, and anyone who compiles a collection of historical anecdotes is more of a historian than Walter Scott.
Historical-conceptual, semantic-linguistic, and comparative-textual analysis will be chosen as the methods for studying this problem.
The course work consists of an introduction, two sections, a conclusion, and a list of references.