SOURCE: Introduction to Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott, Collins and W. W. Norton and Company, 1953, pp. 27-31.
In the essay that follows, Grierson claims that Ivanhoe is a central example of the historical novel and that Scott created that genre.
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