Valerius_(novel)

<i>Valerius</i> (novel)

Valerius (novel)

1821 novel

Valerius is an 1821 historical novel in three volumes by the Scottish writer John Gibson Lockhart, the first of four that he wrote.[1] Lockhart was the son-in-law of Walter Scott, and the work was seen as an attempt to imitate the style of his father-in-law's Waverley Novels. It is set in Ancient Rome, a historical period that Scott himself avoided writing about.[2] Valerius, the hero, converts to Christianity and has to flee to Britain to escape the persecution of the Emperor Trajan.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Baugh p.1274
  2. [2]
    Vance & Wallace p.286
  3. [3]
    Aquino & King p.590

Bibliography

  • Aquino, Frederick D. & King Benjamin J. The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman. Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Baugh, Albert C (ed.) A Literary History of England Vol. 4. Routledge, 2004.
  • Vance, Norman & Wallace, Jennifer (ed.) The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Volume 4. Oxford University Press, 2012.
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