Meaning of historical novelist | Babel Free

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One who writes historical novels.

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“[…] the actual manners, customs, and peculiarities of some ages are illustrated and explained, and, though real personages are introduced, they are not clothed with fictions inconsistent or at variance with their real character. / In the class of those who have been most successful as historical novelists, we would rank the author of the ‘Lollards.’ It is true that his ‘Calthorpe’ was a work of mere fiction, but of fiction so nearly allied to nature, that we could confidently say, if the events did not happen, they might have happened.”

“Historical novelists usually create a language for their characters that suggests the period without reproducing it in its archaic fullness.”

“Hervey Allen, one of the most popular historical novelists of the last century, had this to say of the distinction between historiography and historical fiction: “Neither historian nor novelist can reproduce the real past,” but historical novelists can give “the reader a more vivid, adequate, and significant apprehension of past epochs than does the historian.””

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