La narrativa histórica de Valentín de Llanos y Telesforo Trueba y Cosío: entre Walter Scott y el liberalismo hispánico

Abstract

As an enthusiastic admirer of the lofty genius, the delightful and vivid creations of that great founder of English historical fiction, Sir Walter Scott, it often struck me, while reading his enchanting novels, as rather singular that he had never availed himself of the beautiful and inexhaustible materials for works upon a similar plan to be met with in Spain. It has, indeed, been generally admitted that Spain was the classic ground of chivalry and romance (1828: i, ix).