司各特开创了西方历史小说的完美范本。但严格的说,他并不是历史小说的第一人。但为什么他能被称作“历史小说之父”呢?纵观他的作品我们不难发现,这是因为他的历史小说将小说的虚构与历史的真实完美地结合在了一起。本文拟以司各特小说《艾凡赫》为例,从人物、事件和自然场景几个方面对他的历史小说进行分析,进而揭示司各特是如何使他的小说传达出浓厚的历史真实感的。 Scott has created the perfect model for Western historical novels. But strictly speaking, he is not the first person in a historical novel. But why can he be called “the father of historical novels?” Looking at his works, we can easily find out that this is because his historical novels perfectly combine the fiction of the novel with the truth of history. In this paper, Scott’s novel “Ai Fanhe” is taken as an example to analyze his historical novels from the perspectives of characters, events and natural scenes, and to reveal how Scott can make his novels convey a strong historical truth Feeling.