Jan 3, 2010

Ivanhoe | Related Titles/Adaptations

Ivanhoeis one of the thirty-two Waverley novels, so named for Scott's anonymously authored first novel, Waverley. Some present-day critics insist that all Scott's novels are romances, a criticism that ignores the diversity of his subjects and treatments. The Waverley novels contain realism and romance, the everyday world and the world of the imagination. Their settings stretch from the medieval period to the eighteenth century. The best novels, according to scholars, are those with Scottish settings that deal with religion and the relationship between Scotland and England....