Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson

<p> When three of Britain's best-loved and best-selling authors each publish at least two novels with a historical rebellion theme, there might be an interesting pattern worth examining. This is a long overdue study of the previously overlooked rebellion novel genre, with a close look at the works of Sir Walter Scott (<I>Waverly</I> and <I>Rob Roy</I>), Charles Dickens (<I>A Tale of Two Cities</I> and <I>Barnaby Rudge</I>), and Robert Louis S