Welsh, p. 18. (N. from the A.)

Overlooking Cervantes' influence on the Waverley series may lead to remarks such as David Brown's: Waverley was in a way Scott's prentice-work as a novelist, however, and it is only right to criticize the novel's weakness in some respects. Most obvious is Scott's reliance on his reading to supply both his irony and his narrative style. The mock-Spenserian overtones, for example, eventually become tiresome, and the Shakespearian allusions (though usually well-handled) make the work overly self-conscious at points. Maria Edgeworth quite properly took exception to the rather uneasy authorial addresses to the reader that Scott inserted in Waverley: «They are like Fielding, but for that reason we cannot bear that an author of such high powers, of such original genius, should for a moment stoop to imitation.» Sterne's influence in this respect is also apparent. In all these cases, Scott is leaning too heavily on other writers -not an unusual fault in a first novel, and one which he subsequently avoided in the best of his work (From Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination [Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, p. 28). (N. from the A.)

Welsh, p. 15. (N. from the A.)

See E. C. Riley, Cervantes' Theory of the Novel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962). For discussion of the dilemma of the relationships between fact and fiction, see Leonard Davis, Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983) and Jerry C. Beasley, Novels of the 1740s (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1982). Indeed, the idea of 'factual fiction' is the seminal dilemma faced by the realist novel. (N. from the A.)

All references to Don Quixote are to the Norton Critical Edition, which is the Ormsby translation, revised, edited by Joseph R. Jones and Kenneth Douglas (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981). (N. from the A.)

See John J. Allen, Don Quixote: Hero or Fool? A Study in Narrative Technique (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1969); Anthony Close, The Romantic Approach to «Don Quixote» : A Critical History of the Romantic Tradition in «Quixote» Criticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977); Howard Mancing, The Chivalric World of Don Quixote: Style, Structure, and Narrative Technique (Columbia, Mo.: The University of Missouri Press, 1982) as examples. (N. from the A.)

Herbert Butterfield, The Historical Novel: An Essay (Cambridge, Mass.: The University Press, 1924), preface. (N. from the A.)

David Brown, Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), p. 63. (N. from the A.)

John O. Hayden, «Introduction», Scott: The Critical Heritage (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970), p. 4. (N. from the A.)

M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, ed. M. Holquist (Austin: U of Texas, P, 1981) 5. (N. from the A.)