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Articles
and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2004
An
Annotated Bibliography
Baysal,
Alev. 'Barnaby Rudge as a Historical Novel and
Sir Walter Scott's Influence', Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi/Journal
of the Faculty of Letters, 21.2 (2004), 195-208.
Detects
the influence of Scott (particularly The
Heart of Mid-Lothian) both in the research Dickens conducted
on the Gordon Riots, and on his presentation of the Riots in Barnaby
Rudge. Dickens’s admiration for and imitation of Scott’s
techniques also lead him to relate the historical events to contemporary
ones, revealing suggestive parallels between the Gordon Riots
and the Chartist campaign.
Boddy,
Kasia. 'Scottish Fighting Men: Big and Wee', in
Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture and Literature,
ed. Eleanor Bell and Gavin Miller (Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi,
2004), pp. 183-96.
A
survey of Scottish boxing literature including (pp. 184-87) a
discussion of Scott's 'The
Two Drovers' which contrasts Harry Wakefield's belief that
boxing is honourably manly and quintessentially English with the
Highlander Robin Oig's view of the sport as unseemly and animalistic.
Bratcher,
James T. 'A Ranging Analogue of Scott's the "Eve of
St John"', Notes and Queries, 51.2 (2004), 143-44.
Suggests
a parallel between Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Eve of St. John'
and a legend running in the Beresford family of Curraghmore, Waterford,
Ireland. In both a woman is visited by the ghost of her adulterous
lover who leaves a scar upon her wrist.
Breeze,
Andrew. 'A Gaelic Etymology for "Camstairy" in
Guy Mannering', Scottish Language, 23 (2004),
116-17.
Suggests
that the Scots adjective 'camstairy' meaning 'obstinate and unruly',
used by Scott in Guy
Mannering and attested in other 18th- and 19th-century
sources, derives from the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of the Modern
Irish 'camstarran' ('perverseness'). As the word is used by Scott's
character Dandie Dinmont in Roxburghshire, the source of borrowing
is judged likely to be Galloway, where Gaelic was still being
spoken at least as late as the 17th century.
Brown,
Iain Gordon. ‘The Hand of the Master?: Scott Fakes
and Facsimiles as Souvenirs or Scams’, Folio, 9 (2004),
6-9 <http://www.nls.uk/media/22688/folio09.pdf>
[accessed 22 February 2011]
Notes
that collectors are not only deceived by fake Scott letters (often
produced by Alexander Howland ‘Antique’ Smith) but
by facsimiles produced as memorabilia or marketing ploys. Examines,
in particular, the lithographed facsimile of Scott's dedicatory
letter to George IV made for the Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley
Novels. This proves to be a skillful pseudo-facsimile that considerably
sharpens Scott's somewhat rambling original.
Buckley-Fletcher,
Carolyn. 'Sir Walter Scott and the Beginnings of Ethnology',
in Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders, ed.
Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, and Gerald Gillespie (Amsterdam:
Benjamins, 2004), pp. 107-13.
Having
first responded to cultural crisis as a historian, antiquarian,
and anthropologist, Scott creates in Waverley
a genre that gives tangible form to European society's deepest
anxieties about its past and present, anxieties that will shape
the new disciplines of ethnology, archaeology, and anthropology.
The transition from eighteenth-century antiquarianism and fraudulent
mythography is humorously charted in The
Antiquary.
Budge,
Gavin. '"The Vampyre": Romantic Metaphysics and
the Aristocratic Other', in The Gothic Other: Racial and Social
Constructions in the Literary Imagination, ed. Ruth Bienstock
Anolik and Douglas L. Howard (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004), pp.
212-35.
Includes
(pp. 225-29) a discussion of Waverley.
Burke,
Mary M. 'Dwellers in Archaic Cultural Time: "Gypsies",
"Tinkers" and "Gaels" in the Writings of Sir
Walter Scott’, in To the Other Shore: Crosscurrents in
Irish and Scottish Studies, ed. Neal Alexander, Shane Murphy
and Anne Oakman (Belfast: Queen’s University Press, 2004),
pp. 16-28.
Burstein,
Miriam Elizabeth. ‘"Beautiful and Poetic Creations":
Scott and the Fictions of Women's History’, in Narrating
Women's History in Britain, 1770-1902 (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2004), pp.78-97.
Argues
that The Bride
of Lammermoor, far from delineating 'the romance' and
'the historical' according to convenient binarisms of masculine
and feminism, sharply challenges neat associations between gender
and narrative modes.
Carroll,
David. 'Sir Walter Scott and his Own Romantic Town', in
Edinburgh: Literary Lives & Landscapes (Stroud: Sutton
Publishing, 2004)
Pagination
unknown; pp. 24-37 in 2011 History Press reprint.
Carruthers,
Annette. 'William Morris and Scotland', Journal of
the Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present, 28 (2004),
8-27.
Discusses
Morris's lifelong love of Scott and, in particular, The
Antiquary. Suggests that Morris identified strongly with
Scott's Jonathan Oldbuck with whom he shared a) a passion for
collecting tapestries, fine books, manusripts, incunabula and
engravings, b) an interest in history, archaeology, monastic architecture,
and armaments, and c) a pride in craftsmanship. Morris also valued
the handed-down tradition of knowledge embodied in Edie Ochiltree
and admired Scott's vision of the feudal system as an unbroken
chain of service.
Chandler,
David. ‘Scott's Saint Ronan's Well
and Wordsworth's "Hart-Leap Well"', Notes and Queries,
51.2 (2004), 152-57.
Argues
that Wordsworth's poem is an important shaping influence on Scott's
novel, particularly
in the use of the 'Buckstane' to connect two sets of actions,
through its associations of suffering and misplaced values and
its link with the story's originating crime.
Cox,
Jeffrey N. 'Staging Baillie', in Joanna Baillie, Romantic
Dramatist: Critical Essays, ed. Thomas C. Crochunis (London:
Routledge, 2004), pp. 69-86.
Includes
(pp. 161-63) a discussion of Scott's involvement in the 1810 production
of Baillie's The Family Legend.
Craciun,
Adriana. 'Romantic Spinstrelsy: Anne Bannerman and the
Sexual Politics of the Ballad', in Scotland and the Borders
of Romanticism, ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan, and Janet Sorensen
(Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2004), pp. 204-24.
Includes
(pp. 206-07) a discussion of Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border which stresses the co-editorial
role of John Leyden and notes the conflict between Scott's vision
of balladry as bardic, courtly, and masculine and Leyden's understanding
of it as collective, democractic, and feminine.
Deresiewicz,
William. 'Persuasion: Widowhood and Waterloo',
in Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets (New York; Chichester:
Columbia University Press, c2004), pp. 127-58.
Argues
(pp. 146-51, 153-55) that in Persuasion (1818) Austen
is inspired by Scott's verse romances (particulary Marmion
and The Lord of the
Isles) to synchronize the personal drama of loss and
love with the national drama of war and peace. Notes too that
the novel takes place in the shadow of Waterloo and draws on Austen's
reading of The
Field of Waterloo and Paul's
Letters to His Kinsfolk.
Docherty,
Thomas. ‘The Existence of Scotland’, in Scotland
in Theory: Reflections on Culture and Literature, ed. Eleanor
Bell and Gavin Miller (Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 231-47.
Argues
that we must use the Bildungsroman of Waverley
to develop the notion of Scotland as a 'theoretical possibility'
rather than a historically passive object.
Dryden,
Edgar A. '"Lost in ‘The Custom-House":
Hawthorne the Literary Man', Nathaniel Hawthorne Review,
30 (2004), 166-86.
Argues
that Hawthorne derives his 'ambivalent attitude toward fiction'
and 'uneasy sense of himself as a literary man' from Scott. Charts
parallels between the two writers' prefaces and correspondence
which demonstrate that each recognizes a clear distinction between
politics and his role as an imaginative writer.
Dyer,
Gary. 'Reading as a Criminal in Early Nineteenth-Century
Fiction', Wordsworth Circle, 35 (2004), 141-46.
Includes
(pp. 143-44) a discussion of Scott's (unglossed) use of criminal
slang or 'cant' in Guy
Mannering and 'The
Surgeon's Daughter'. Suggests that disguised communication
is central to canonical Romanticism, whose major texts address
their readers as if at least some of them were 'knowing' members
of a secret fraternity.
Ford,
Susan Allen. 'Learning Romance from Scott and Byron: Jane
Austen's Natural Sequel', Persuasions, 26 (2004), 72-88.
Includes
a discussion of the intertextual role of Scott's verse romances
in Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Frazier,
Melissa. 'Personae and Personality in O. I. Senkovskij',
Russian Literature, 56 (2004), 343-62.
Includes
(pp. 350-54) a discussion of the influence of Scott's Jedediah
Cleishbotham persona (particularly as developped in the introduction
to The Heart
of Mid-Lothian) on the journalistic personae of the Polish-Russian
writer Józef Sekowski (also known as Osip Ivanovic Senkovskij).
Fritzsche,
Peter. 'Household Fairies', in Stranded in the Present:
Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2004), pp. 160-200.
Includes
a discussion of Scott, pp. 174-77.
Furbank,
P. N. 'On the Historical Novel', Raritan, 23.3
(2004), 94-114.
Argues
that the historical novel escapes Henry James's critique of the
genre when it uses the past to cast light on the present, for
it is from our sense of the past that our sense of the present
is constructed. Waverley
is particularly successful in preserving a place for the modern
consciousness and making plain the thread connecting the writer
(and reader) to the bygone scene. Sees Ivanhoe,
conversely, as an 'archaizing' novel which emphasizes the pastness
of the past.
Gamer,
Michael. 'Authors in Effect: Lewis, Scott and the Gothic
Drama', in Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural
Studies, ed. Fred Botting and Dale Townshend (London: Routledge,
2004), II, 214-42.
Garbin,
Lidia. '"Not fit to tie his brogues": Shakespeare
and Scott', in Shakespeare and Scotland, ed. Willy Maley
and Andrew Murphy (Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press,
2004), pp. 141-56.
Argues
that throughout Scott's works Shakespeare functions as an authority
and a resource for both characters and narrator. Focuses primarily
on Kenilworth,
where Shakespeare is presented as a a transgressor and trespasser,
a 'halting fellow', like Scott himself, someone whose identity
and status is dependent on the whim of others. Goes on to discuss
attempts by Cavalier and Roundhead alike to appropriate Shakespeare
for political ends in Woodstock.
Gottlieb,
Evan. ‘”To Be at Once Another and the Same”:
Walter Scott and the End(s) of Sympathetic Britishness’, Studies
in Romanticism, 43 (2004), 187-207.
Argues
that The Heart
of Midlothian deploys a vocabulary of sympathy, adapted
from the Scottish Enlightenment, in order to encourage readers
to think of themselves as British first, English or Scottish second.
A reworked and expanded version
appears in Evan Gottlieb's Feeling British: Sympathy and National
Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832 (2007).
Gribben,
Crawford. ‘James Hogg, Scottish Calvinism and Literary
Theory’, Scottish Studies Review, 5.2 (2004), 9-26.
Includes
a comparison of the treatment of Calvinism and the Covenanting
tradition in Old
Mortality and Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions
of a Justified Sinner.
Guthke,
Karl S. 'Gruppenbild ohne M.G. Lewis: Neues zu Walter Scotts
Übersetzungen von Goethes Balladen', Archiv für das
Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 241 (2004), 1-17.
Through
an examination of Scott's correspondence with M. G. Lewis, assesses
Lewis's role in refining Scott's translation of Goethe's ballad
'Der untreue Knabe' ('Frederick and Alice') for publication in
Tales of Wonder (1801) (see Literary
Beginnings). Also prints a hitherto unpublished translation
by Scott of Goethe's poem 'Der Fischer' ('The Mermaid').
Halmi,
Nicholas. ‘Lucy, Lucia, and Locke’, Romanticism
on the Net, 34/35 (2004) <http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2004/v/n34-35/009434ar.html>
[accessed 13 May 2008]
Argues
that Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor rewrites The
Bride of Lammermoor from a Lockean perspective.
Harthorn,
Stephen P. 'Truth and Consequences: James Fenimore Cooper
on Scott, Columbus, Bumppo, and Professional Authorship', James
Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers, 20 (2004), 1-10.
Discusses
a review of J. G. Lockhart’s Memoirs of the Life of
Sir Walter Scott, Bart., where Cooper argued that Scott was
guilty of grossly dishonest and self-serving conduct as a professional
author and was poisoned by a calculating instinct geared toward
fame and popularity. Through his critique of Scott, Cooper sought
to define the ethical code that would distinguish the true professional
literary artist in America.
Henriques,
Ana Lucia de Souza. 'Walter Scott: um caçador de
canções medievais', Feminismos, identidades, comparativismos,
2 (2004), 9-23.
Brazilian
article on Scott's ballad-hunting, presumably discussing Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border.
Hewitt,
David. 'Walter Scott 1771-1832', in Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography, ed. Brian Harrison, 60 vols (Oxford
University Press, 2004), XLIX, pp. 490-510.
Provides
a detailed overview of Scott's life, charts the fluctuations of
his literary reputation, and assesses his character.
Hill,
Richard. ‘Understanding Walter Scott in the 21st
Century’, University of Edinburgh Journal, 51 (2004),
227-30.
On
the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and the shortcomings
of the Magnum Opus text with particular reference to The
Pirate.
Hites,
Sándor. ‘Sir Walter Scott és az Ivanhoe
magyar fordítói’, in A múltnak kútja:
tanulmányok a történelmi elbeszélések
körébol (Budapest: JAK: Ulpius-ház, 2004),
pp. 143-69.
On
Hungarian translations of Ivanhoe.
Hook,
Andrew. 'The French Taste for Scottish Literary Romanticism',
in Scotland and France in the Enlightenment, ed. Deirdre
Dawson and Pierre Morère (Lewisburg: Bucknell University
Press, 2004), pp. 90-107.
Argues
that Scotland and France enjoyed their closest cultural links
in the decade 1820-1830. Charts how Scott's novels inspired operas,
art, drama, and literary fiction as well as fashion, furniture,
and masked balls. Giving identity to an existing French inclination
that was waiting to be exploited, the Waverley Novels played a
crucial role in the development of French Romanticism.
Janko,
Anton. 'Sir Walter Scott pri slovencih', in Prevajanje
besedil iz obdobja romantike = Translation of Texts from the Romantic
Period, ed. Martina Ozbot (Ljubljana: Društvo slovenskih
knjievnih prevajalcev, 2004), pp. 83-94.
A
survey of Slovenian translations of Scott.
Jones,
Miriam. '”The Usual Sad Catastrophe”: From
the Street to the Parlor in Adam Bede’, Victorian
Literature and Culture, 32 (2004), 305-26.
Discusses
hypertextual references to The
Heart of Midlothian in the portrayal of the 'infanticidal
woman'.
Jones,
W. Gareth. '"'Tis Sixty Years Since": Sir Walter
Scott's Eighteenth Century and Tolstoy's Engagement with History',
in Russian Society and Culture and the Long Eighteenth Century:
Essays in Honour of Anthony G. Cross, ed. Roger Bartlett and
Lindsey Hughes (Münster: Litverlag; New Brunswick: Transaction
Publishers, 2004), pp. 185-94.
Notes
the lack of research into Scott's influence on Tolstoy, an influence
denied by Tolstoy himself and, subsequently, György Lukács.
Observes, however, that both Waverley
and War and Peace deal with events sixty years in the
past, and detects similarties in the presentation of battle and
choice of a mediocre protagonist. Tolstoy, however, places greater
emphasis on the people as the mainspring of political events and
shows greater scorn for the 'great men' who believe they direct
history.
Kemeny,
Tomaso. ‘”The wren, the wren was caught in
the furze”: annotazioni in margine a poetiche note’,
Confronto letterario, 41 (2004), 277-85.
Kincade,
Kit. ‘A Whillaluh for Ireland: Castle Rackrent
and Edgeworth's Influence on Sir Walter Scott’, in An
Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and her Contexts,
ed. Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske (Newark: Delaware UP, 2004),
pp. 250-69.
Discusses
in particular the influence of Castle Rackrent on The
Heart of Midlothian.
Knox-Shaw,
Peter. 'Persuasion: Light on an Old Genre', in
Jane Austen and the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004), pp. 220-42.
Includes
(especially pp. 222-24, 230-32) a discussion of Jane Austen's
engagement with Scott's The
Field of Waterloo, The
Lady of the Lake, and, in particular, Marmion
in her last novel Persuasion.
Lee,
Yoon Sun. ‘Sir Walter Scott on the Field of Waterloo’,
in Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 74-104.
Examines
why and how Scott used antiquarianism to articulate his complex,
ironic nationalism. Despite its avowed patriotic intentions, antiquarian
foraging for scraps, fragments, and illegible objects could embarrass
or even undermine belief in national character as an unbroken
inheritance. In Paul’s
Letters to His Kinsfolk and The
Antiquary, Scott showed how antiquarianism could be critical,
skeptical, and commercially-minded at the same time that it upheld
cherished national fictions.
McGann,
Jerome. 'Marking Texts of Many Dimensions', in A Companion
to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schriebman, Ray Siemens, and
John Unsworth (Malden, MA; Oxford : Blackwell, c2004), pp. 198-217
Includes
(pp. 206-07) a description of the IVANHOE
Game, developed by Prof. McGann and Johanna Drucker at the
University of Virginia, 'an online playspace that facilitates
collaborative interpretation' and permits student-players to perform
or to modify Scott's novel-making decisions.
McGann,
Jerome. 'Walter Scott's Romantic Postmodernity', in Scotland
and the Borders of Romanticism, ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan,
and Janet Sorensen (Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2004), pp.
113-29.
Analyses
Scott's framing devices as a means of urging readers to attend
to the artifice of the work before them. A revised
version appeared in Jerome McGann's The Scholar’s
Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World ( 2006).
McGann,
Jerome, and Joanna Drucker.
'IVANHOE: Interpretation in a New Key with Special Reference to
Byron's "Fare Thee Well"', Romantic Pedagogy Commons,
1 (2004) <http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons/innovations/mcgann3.html>
[accessed 29 August 2006]
A
Flash presentation demonstrating how the IVANHOE
Game works.
McGann,
Jerome (in collaboration with Johanna Drucker
and Bethany Nowviskie). 'IVANHOE:
Education in a New Key', Romantic Pedagogy Commons, 1 (2004)
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons/innovations/IVANHOE.html>
[accessed 29 August 2006]
Outlines
the pedagogical potential of the IVANHOE
Game.
McIntosh-Varjabédian,
Fiona. 'Etre dans l'histoire ou dans ses marges: Philippe
de Commynes et Walter Scott', Bien dire et bien aprandre,
22 (2004), 247-58.
On
Scott's debt to the fifteenth-century French chronicler Philippe
de Commynes.
McIntosh-Varjabédian,
Fiona. 'Pourquoi annoter un roman?: Le Magnum Opus
de Walter Scott et la création du romancier savant', in Les
Marges théoriques internes: actes du colloque des 13, 14
et 15 septembre 2001, Université Nancy 2, UFR de Lettres,
ed. Laurence Kohn-Pireaux and Dominique Denès (Nancy: Presses
Universitaires de Nancy, 2004), pp. 23-35.
On
the notes that Scott prepared for the 'Magnum Opus' edition of
the Waverley Novels.
Maciulewicz,
Joanna. ‘From Epic to the Historical Novel: The Reflection
of the Transition from the Epic to the Novelistic Tradition in Sir
Walter Scott's Waverley’, in Aspects of Suffering:
Classical Themes in Literature in English, ed. Liliana Sikorska
(New York; Frankfurt: Lang, 2004), pp. 87-105.
Analyses
Waverley
to show how transformations in manners and lifestyle dictate alterations
in the genres employed to describe them. Thus, the historical
novel, which by definition portrays the world in transition between
feudalism and modernity will necessarily combine epic and novelistic
convention.
Maciulewicz,
Joanna. ‘Sir Walter Scott's Licentia Historica:
The Historical Novel as a Displaced Romance’, Studia Anglica
Posnaniensia, 40 (2004), 323-32.
Demonstrates
how Scott depicts the transformation of the social order in The
Fair Maid of Perth, from pre-modernity and feudalism
to the modern, capitalist world, which entails the transformation
of romance conventions into novelistic ones.
McLane,
Maureen N. ‘Tuning the Multi-Media Nation, or, Minstrelsy
of the Afro-Scottish Border ca 1800’, European Romantic
Review, 15 (2004), 289-305.
Compares
Scott's mediation of ballad sources in Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border to that of Joseph Ritson and John
Pinkerton.
McMillan,
Dorothy. 'Unromantic Caledon: Representing Scotland in
The Family Legend, Metrical Legends, and Witchcraft',
in Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays,
ed. Thomas C. Crochunis (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 69-86.
Includes
a discussion of Scott's involvement in the 1810 production of
Baillie's The Family Legend.
Malzahn,
Manfred. 'Walter Scott: The Haunting and the Haunted',
Cencrastus, 77 (2004), 15-18.
On
Rob Roy.
Manning,
Susan. '"Peine forte et dure": Scott and France',
in Scotland and France in the Enlightenment, ed. Deirdre
Dawson and Pierre Morère (Lewisburg: Bucknell University
Press, 2004), pp. 108-127.
Argues
that in his late work, Scott created a France in which rage, anarchy,
and violence flourished and thus found new creative energies at
a low point in his personal fortunes. Draws a parallel between
Scott's personal struggles and the historical struggles depicted
in Quentin Durward
and Anne of Geierstein.
Most strikingly, when writing the Life
of Napoleon Bonaparte, Scott increasingly linked his
fate with the Emperor's, as he described a triumphant career ending
in disgrace, confinement, and physical pain.
Mason,
Emma. '"Some kind friends": Scott's Harold
the Dauntless (HM 1937) and Frederick Locker-Lampson', Huntington
Library Quarterly, 67 (2004), 623-31.
Victorian
collector Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-95), founder of the Rowfant
Library, owned an incomplete manuscript of Scott's Harold
the Dauntless which is now in Huntington Library. This
article describes how he completed and enhanced the manuscript
by inviting well-known poets and literary figures -- including
Arnold, Browning, and Tennyson -- to transcribe the missing lines.
Mergenthal,
Silvia. 'Translating the Historical Novel: The Scott Formula
in 19th-Century German Literature', in Anglistentag 2003 in
München: Proceedings (Trier: WVT, 2004), pp. 225-34.
Moore,
P. G. 'Dr Baird and his Feminine Eponyms: Biographical
Considerations and Ostracod Nomenclature', Archives of Natural
History, 32 (2004), 92-105.
Suggests
that Scottish zoologist William Baird (1803-72) drew on his love
of Scott in naming four ostracod species, viz. Pilomedes brenda,
Macrocypis minna, Cylindroleberis mariae, and
Cypris joanna. The first two, found off the coast of
Shetland, may benamed after the Shetlandic sisters Brenda and
Minna in Scott's The
Pirate. The latter may honour Scott's writer-friends
Maria Edgeworth and Joanna Baillie whose espousal of social reform
and proto-feminism would have resonated with Baird.
Mortensen,
Peter. ‘"The Descent of Odin": Romantic
Writers among the Norsemen', in British Romanticism and Continental
Influences: Writing in an Age of Europhobia (Houndmills: Palgrave,
2004), pp. 173-207.
Includes
(pp. 193-203) a discussion of Harold
the Dauntless, arguing that Scott revives and exploits
timeworn clichés about 'northern freedom' and 'northern
independence' only to subvert them and reveal them as empty signifiers.
An earlier version of this
chapter appeared in Romanticism, 6 (2000).
Mortensen,
Peter. ‘"The Flower of English Chivalry":
Scott, the German Hero, and the Making of a War-Poem’, in
Prevajanje besedil iz obdobja romantike = Translation of Texts
from the Romantic Period, ed. Martina Ozbot (Ljubljana: Društvo
slovenskih knjievnih prevajalcev, 2004), pp. 95-110.
While
Scott publicly played down the importance of his early translations
from German, this article argues that in reality he exploited
German conventions throughout his ‘mature’ years,
adapting them to the changed socio- political climate of Britain
during the Napoleonic Wars. Focusing, in particular on Marmion,
Mortensen shows that Scott does not break with but rather refines
his use of Sturm und Drang plots, settings and character
types.
Mortensen,
Peter. ‘"Partizans of the German Theatre":
The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Drama Translation', in British
Romanticism and Continental Influences: Writing in an Age of Europhobia
(Houndmills: Palgrave, 2004), pp. 134-72.
Includes
(pp. 140-50) a discussion of Scott's translation of Goethe's Götz
von Berlichingen, which argues that Scott employs an archaicizing,
foreignizing language in order to resist the parallels that Goethe
hints at with contemporary politics.
Müllenbrock,
Heinz-Joachim. 'Scott und die Historiographie', Literaturwissenschaftliches
Jahrbuch im Auftrage der Görres-Gesellschaft, 45 (2004),
99-108.
German-language
article on Scott and historiography.
Müllenbrock,
Heinz Joachim, and Frauke Reitemeier.
'Benedikte Naubert and Sir Walter Scott: Further Suggestions
towards a Genealogy of the Historical Novel', in The Corvey
Library and Anglo-German Cultural Exchanges, 1770-1837: Essays to
Honour Rainer Schöwerling, ed. Werner Huber (Munich: Fink,
2004), pp. 131-45.
In
an effort to ascertain Scott's debt to the German historical novel,
compares Waverley
to Naubert's Hermann von Unna (1794) and to a representative
English novel, the anonymous Edward De Courcy (1794).
Concludes that Naubert takes history more seriously than her English
contemporaries, making some effort to show how private and historical
circumstances intertwine and to reflect on the relationship between
past and present and between history and fiction.
Newman,
Andrew. ‘Sublime Translation in the Novels of James
Fenimore Cooper and Walter Scott’, Nineteenth-Century
Literature, 59 (2004), 1-26.
Argues
that Cooper's motif of 'sublime translation', whereby scenes of
communication between Anglo-Americans and native Americans are
set in sublime locations and, typically, interrupted by animals,
is borrowed from Waverley.
This article was subsequently reprinted
in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, 203 (2008).
O'Donoghue,
Heather. ‘The Influence of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature’,
in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature (Malden, MA; Oxford:
Blackwell, 2004), pp.149-201.
Includes
(pp. 157-61) a discussion of the influence of Old Norse and Icelandic
literature on The
Pirate and Rokeby.
Page,
Judith. W. 'Jews and the Romantic Culture of Sympathy',
in Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic
Literature and Culture (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2004), pp. 1-20.
Includes
(pp. 11-15) a discussion of Ivanhoe
and of Scott's attitude towards Jews.
Perkins,
Pam. '"We Who Have Been Bred upon Sir Walter":
Margaret Oliphant, Sir Walter Scott, and Women's Literary History',
English Studies in Canada, 30.2 (2004), 90-104.
Argues
that Scott was more important for Oliphant than any of his female
contemporaries in establishing a literature that transcended the
limitations of conventionally masculine or feminine subject matter.
Phillips,
Helen. 'Scott and Chaucer: Ekphrasis, Politics, and the
Past in The Antiquary', Poetica, 61 (2004), 25-42.
Riach,
Alan. ‘The Whistler's Story: Tragedy and the Enlightenment
Imagination in The Heart of Midlothian’, Studies
in Scottish Literature, 33/34 (2004), 308-19.
Places
The Heart of
Midlothian at the midway point of a shift in Scott's
work, from an optimistic, rational, classical temper, in which
the concerns of judgment, balance, and order are predominant,
to a temper more given to darkness, dream and symbol. An expanded
version subsequently appeared in Riach's Representing
Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks
of the Modern Nation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, c2005).
Rigney,
Ann. ‘Portable Monuments: Literature, Cultural Memory
and the Case of Jeanie Deans’, Poetics Today, 25
(2004), 361-96.
Argues,
through a study of the genesis, composition, and long-term reception
of The Heart
of Midlothian, that literary texts play a variety of
roles in the formation of cultural memory and that these roles
are linked to their status as public discourse, to their fictional
and poetical qualities, and to their longevity.
Robertson,
Fiona. 'Romance and the Romantic Novel: Sir Walter Scott',
in A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary,
ed. Corinne Saunders (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 287-304.
Surveys
the especially influential place of Scott both as a medieval scholar
and as a novelist, examining the presence of romance motifs, patterning,
and symbolism in the Waverley Novels, and focusing, in particular,
on Scott's use of hunting scenes and the narrative form of entrelacement.
Romanos,
Christos S. 'Semiotics of the Historical Novel', in Human
Boundaries: Oral Song, Text, Hypertext (Minneapolis, MN: Nostos,
2004)
Pagination
unknown. An analysis of The
Antiquary.
Rowland,
Ann Wierda. '"The false nourice sang": Childhood,
Child Murder, and the Formalism of the Scottish Ballad Revival',
in Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism, ed. Leith Davis,
Ian Duncan, and Janet Sorensen (Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP,
2004), pp. 225-44.
Examines
how Scottish ballad collections, principally Scott's Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border, deal with infanticide ballads
and other tales of family violence which might challenge visions
of national continuity, strength, or historical perseverance.
Argues that they produce a reading practice that disregards content
and privileges form as a vehicle of national cultural transmission.
Samuels,
Maurice. 'Scott Comes to France', in The Spectacular
Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-century France
(Ithaca, N.Y. ; London: Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. 151-94.
Argues
that Scott's originality lies in adapting the form of the novel
to the spectacular conventions of nineteenth-century historiography.
Charts the influence of Scott and his French imitators on all
the spectacular forms of historical representation in nineteenth-century
France, including Romantic historiography and the Romantic historical
drama.
Scraba,
Jeffrey. 'Negotiating History: Tourists and Guides in Washington
Irving’s Abbotsford', in Conference Proceedings:
Tourism and Literature: Travel, Imagination and Myth, Harrogate,
UK, 22-26 July 2004 (Leeds Metropolitan University CTCC, 2004)
[on CD-ROM]
Show
how Washington Irving’s Abbotsford both constructs
Scott’s home as a site of literary pilgrimage and depicts
a Scotland being rapidly transformed by reactions to Scott’s
works. Not only did Scott’s texts themselves reconstruct
places through a nostalgic historicism, but tourists also reified
these reconstructions by reading the landscape through the lens
of historical romance. However, as Irving shows, the local population
also adopted, modified, and retailed these texts for their own
purposes.
Scrivener,
Michael. 'Trials in Romantic-Era Writing: Modernity, Guilt,
and the Scene of Justice', Wordsworth Circle, 35 (2004),
128-33.
Includes
a discussion of The
Heart of Mid-Lothian and Ivanhoe.
Shaw,
Harry E. 'Realities of the Prison: Dickens, Scott, and
the Secularization of Their Eighteenth-Century Inheritance', in
In the Grip of the Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between,
ed. Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004),
pp. 169-84.
Simpson,
Erik. ‘Minstrelsy Goes to Market: Prize Poems, Minstrel
Contests, and Romantic Poetry', ELH, 71 (2004), 691-718.
Discusses
Minstrelsy of
the Scottish Border and The
Lay of the Last Minstrel. A reworked
and expanded version appears in Erik Simpson's Literary
Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish,
and American Literature (2008).
Skelton-Foord,
Christopher. 'Walter Scott and the Engendering of the Popular
Novel: Circulating-Library Holdings of British Fiction, 1805-1819',
in The Corvey Library and Anglo-German Cultural Exchanges, 1770-1837:
Essays to Honour Rainer Schöwerling, ed. Werner Huber
(Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2004), pp. 101-16.
Examining
the holdings of forty-six circulating libraries of the Romantic
period, finds evidence that Scott did indeed signal the demise
of female dominance of British fiction. Notes, however, that Scott
always remained generous and honest in his praise of the huge
contribution made by women writers to the development of the novel
in his time.
Spina,
Giorgio. ‘Walter Scott: la storia come romanzo’,
in Personaggi in controluce (Genoa: Autori autogestiti
associati liguri & PersonalEdit, 2004), pp. 78-87.
Essentially
a biographical sketch, with a brief discussion of Scott's role
in the creation of historical fiction and his influence on the
subsequent development of the 19th-century novel.
Stevenson,
David. ‘”The Gudeman of Ballangeich”:
Rambles in the Afterlife of James V’, Folklore (UK),
115 (2004), 187-200.
Discusses
The Lady of the Lake
and Tales of
a Grandfather.
Sullivan,
Joseph M. ‘MGM's 1953 Knights of the Round Table
in its Manuscript Context’, Arthuriana, 14 (2004),
53-68.
Discusses
Knights of the Round Table (1953), Quo Vadis?
(1951), Ivanhoe (1952), and The Adventures of Quentin
Durward (1955).
Tulloch,
Graham. 'Writing "by Advice": Ivanhoe
and The Three Perils of Man', Studies in Hogg and his
World, 15 (2004), 53-66.
Compares
the two writers' modes of composition and revision by studying
the manuscripts of Ivanhoe
and Hogg's The Three Perils of Man.
Tytler,
Graeme. '"Faith in the Hand of nature": Physiognomy
in Sir Walter Scott's Fiction', Studies in Scottish Literature,
33/34 (2004), 223-46.
Examines
how far references to physiognomy in Scott and his physical character
descriptions reflect the influence of the 18th-century Swiss physiognomist
Lavater.
Voskuil,
Lynn M. 'Feeling Public: Sensation Theater, Commodity Culture,
and the Victorian Public Sphere', in Acting Naturally: Victorian
Theatricality and Authenticity (Charlottesville; London: University
of Virginia Press, 2004), pp. 62-94.
Discusses,
among other Victorian 'sensation dramas', Dion Boucicault's The
Trial of Effie Deans, adapted from The
Heart of Midlothian. An earlier
version was published in Victorian Studies, 44 (2002).
Watt,
James. 'Scott, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Romantic
Orientalism', in Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism,
ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan, and Janet Sorensen (Cambridge, England:
Cambridge UP, 2004), pp. 94-112.
Examines
The Talisman
and 'The Surgeon's
Daughter' within the context of competing efforts to explain
differences between cultures and people, and, in particular, the
works of the 'Scottish Orientalists', James Mill, William Robertson,
and Mountstuart Elphinstone.
Whyte,
Christopher. ‘Queer Readings, Gay Texts: From Redgauntlet
to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', in Resisting Alterities:
Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness, ed. Marco Fazzini
(Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp.159-75.
Argues
that Scottish literary criticism typically ignores potential 'queer
readings' of canonical texts, ignoring subjects such as cross-dressing
in Redgauntlet
and homo-eroticism in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
The suppression of such potential readings indicates the prohibitions
and taboos involved in the formation of the Scottish canon. Also
published in a different form as Whyte 2004b
(below).
Whyte,
Christopher. ‘Queer Readings, Gay Texts: From Redgauntlet
to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', in Scotland in Theory:
Reflections on Culture and Literature, ed. Eleanor Bell and
Gavin Miller (Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp.147-65.
Argues
that Scottish literary criticism typically ignores potential 'queer
readings' of canonical texts, ignoring subjects such as cross-dressing
in Redgauntlet
and homo-eroticism in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
The suppression of such potential readings indicates the prohibitions
and taboos involved in the formation of the Scottish canon. Also
published in a different form as Whyte 2004a
(above).
Zeune,
Joachim. 'Vom "echten Styl" deutscher Burgen:
das Bild der Burg im 19. Jahrhundert', Burgen und Schlösser,
45 (2004), 8-17.
Includes
a discussion of the impact of Scott's Ivanhoe
on the romanticization of medieval castles and medieval life by
painters, architects, writers, and musicians in Germany and elsewhere
in nineteenth-century Europe.
Zhang,
Jianfei. 'Feng jing yu min zu xing de jian gou: yi Sigete
wei li' [Landscape and Formation of Nationality: A Case Study of Walter
Scott], Foreign Literature Studies, 108 (2004), 135-41.
Drawing
on Isaiah Berlin's ideas on cultural nationalism and romanticism,
analyzes how Scott transforms the Romantic cult of nature into
an expression of cultural nationality. Reads the Highland landscape
in Scott's fiction as a set of visual clues to the mindset and
feelings of the Highlanders, and analyzes how landscape becomes
a force binding people to their homeland and community and driving
them to revolt against oppressive outsiders.
Ziolkowski,
Theodore. 'Wavering Heroes, from Scotland to Spain', in
Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis (Princeton,
N.J.: Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. 119-39.
Discusses
Waverley
as a crucial step in a literary evolution where the epic hero
passes from instant action through momentary hesitation to ever-lengthening
temporizations culminating in total inaction. Unlike his immediate
literary predecessor, Schiller's Wallenstein, who is destroyed
by his inability to act, Waverley resolves his conflicts by marrying
a Scotswoman and settling down on the border between the two countries
and cultures.
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