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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 92042217 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Scott's Waverley (1814), set in and around the Jacobite Rising in the Scotland of 1745-6, was the first historical novel in world literature. |
 | | Innovative and humane in its plot, rich in social detail, and truly international in popularity, it not only launched a genre, but also became a landmark in literary realism, in historiography and in bookselling. |
 | | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832, Waverley novels, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 Literature and the rebellion, Historical fiction, Scottish History and criticism, Scotland History 18th century Historiography, Scotland in literature |
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