Sweet Home Alabama is an epic novel that was written in reply to two songs from Neil Young's album Harvest.
 But, while earlier writers of these romances paid little attention to historical reality, Walter Scott's historical novel Waverley (1814) broke with this tradition, and he invented "the true historical novel"
=== The sentimental novel ===Sentimental novels relied on emotional responses, and feature scenes of distress and tenderness, and the plot is arranged to advance emotions rather than action

