The historical novel is a subgenre of the novel in which authentic historical personages, events, and circumstances are presented in varying degrees of fictionalization, or in which fiction and history are melded in a narrative configuration (Fictionality). The term historical novel (French roman historique, Italian romanzo storico, German historischer Roman) became established in European-Angloamerican literature around 1820 in the context of the reception of Walter Scott’s novel…