The aim of the work is to identify innovative features in the work of Walter Scott on the example of the novel «Ivanhoe».
To achieve this goal, the following tasks are solved::
1.    Describe Romanticism as a historical and literary trend. 
2.    Give a general overview of the work of Walter Scott.
3.    To reveal the ideological and artistic originality of the writer's creative method on the example of the novel «Ivanhoe».
4.    Identify innovative features in the work of Walter Scott.
The object of research of the course work is to determine the innovation of Walter Scott as the creator of the historical novel.