Charles Nodier lecteur de Walter Scott et du roman de son temps

Charles Nodier played a part in the success of Walter Scott’s novels in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He gave them exposure by writing four articles published in La Quotidienne in December 1821 and October 1823. For him, this was an opportunity to bring his theoretical approach to the novel, quite marked by classicism, to bear on Scott’s contribution, so novel in its use of history—and take stock of the Romanticism whose birth he had contributed to in a major way and about which he continued to have many reservations.