Articles and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2009

Articles and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2009

An Annotated Bibliography

Ali, Zulfiqar. 'Scott and the Orient. Part 1', University of Edinburgh Journal, 44 (2009), 25-27.

On The Talisman.

Anderson, Phillip B. 'Scott's "The Eve of Saint John" and the "Influence" of Christabel on The Lay of the Last Minstrel', Philological Review, 35 (2009), 1-10.

Baker, Samuel. 'Scott's Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and "the Author of Waverley''', Modern Language Quarterly, 70 (2009), 443-71.

Argues that Scott's true philosophy is Stoicism, tracing his ironic treatment of the sympathetic Stoic undermined by sentiment back to its eighteenth-century antecedents in Joseph Addison and Adam Smith. Like Guy Mannering the astrologer and Jonathan Oldbuck the antiquary, 'the Author of Waverley' is himself a compromised Stoic, yet Scott's narratives demonstrate how, while it may fail on its own terms, the ancient philosophy of apathy creates the possibility of modern romance

Baker, Samuel. 'Teaching the Waverley Novels: An Intertextual Approach', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 59-66.

Bautz, Annika. 'Scott’s Victorian Readers', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 31 (2009), 19-29.

Charts how sales figures and other data demonstrated the persistent popularity of Scott’s novels over the course of the nineteenth century.

Bennett, Douglas M. 'The "Real" Lucia di Lammermoor & the "Fake" Walter Scott', History Scotland, 9.1 (2009), 30-34.

Bryan, Eric. 'Wee Tales: The Beginnings of the Modern Scottish Short Story', History Scotland, 9.5 (2009), 33-38.

Buchanan, David. 'Scott Squashed: Chapbook Versions of The Heart of Mid-Lothian', Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 56 (2009) <http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1001097ar> [accessed 29 August 2011]

Shows how early 19th-century publishers altered the traditional chapbook, adapting both out-of-copyright and current novels. The form, content, price, and length of these new chapbooks were designed to attract and develop different parts of a broad downmarket readership. Accordingly, this case study of The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818) as chapbook from 1818 to ca. 1830 describes the transformation of an upmarket novel for a popular print form influenced by publishers, readers, and socio-historical circumstances.

Buckton, Oliver S. '"This Monstrous Passion": Teaching The Bride of Lammermoor and Queer Theory', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 157-63.

Burgess, Miranda. 'Nation, Book, Medium: New Technologies and their Genres', in Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre, ed. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein (Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2009), pp. 193-220.

Includes a section 'New Media and Meta-Media, 1790s-1820s: Walter Scott's Situation' on The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Scott's responses to radical print in his letters and elsewhere. Based on observations about narrative form -- especially the mutual metaphoricity of the nation and the book --in conjunction with the associated qualities of self-consciousness about sociability, historicity, and mediatedness that emerge from this study, this article proposes an understanding of genre formation as a characteristic, and under-recognized, response to the experience of media change.

Campbell, Timothy. '"The Business of War": William Godwin, Enmity, and Historical Representation', ELH, 76 (2009), 343-69.

Includes a reading of Wililam Godwin's novel Mandeville (1817) as a response to Scott's Waverley (1814).

Camus, Renaud. 'Abbotsford, Borders, Écosse: Walter Scott', in Demeures de l'esprit: Grande-Bretagne, II (Angleterre nord & Écosse ); Irlande (Paris: Fayard, 2009), pp. 185-96.

Carruthers, Gerard. '"Age of Scott" and the "Blackwoodians"', in Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp. 96-109.

Carson, James P. 'The Author of Waverley and the Problem of Romantic Authorship', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 50-58.

Cochran, Peter. '"I long to get drunk with him": Byron and Scott', in 'Romanticism' and Byron (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009), pp. 151-207.

Davison, Carol Margaret. 'Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814): The Terrors of History', in History of the Gothic. 1, Gothic literature, 1764-1824 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009), pp. 191-205.

Duncan, Ian. 'Edinburgh and Lowland Scotland', in The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature, ed. James Chandler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 159-81.

Duncan, Ian. 'The Exterminating Angel: History and the Fate of Genre', Revue internationale de philosophie, 63 (2009), 123-36.

Includes (pp. 129-31) a discussion of of Old Mortality, arguing that Scott represents revolutionary ideology as emerging from the politicization of everyday life in a civil conflict, as what ought (in Scottish Enlightenment terms) to be the "unconscious", naturalized medium of common life is invested at every level with political meaning, the ethical product of which is fanaticism.

Duncan, Ian. 'Introduction: Romancing Scotland', Modern Language Quarterly, 70 (2009), 403-13.

Duncan, Ian. 'Scott, the History of the Novel, and the History of Fiction', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 88-96.

Durán López, Fernando. ‘Blanco White y Walter Scott’, Cuadernos Dieciochistas, 10 (2009), 247-62.

Spanish-language article on José María Blanco White’s reception of Scott’s historical novel, and on his technique as a translator of passages in Ivanhoe for the review Variedades, compared with that of José Joaquín de Mora, who published complete translations of Ivanhoe and The Talisman in 1825.

Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. 'Echoes of Gray in Scott's Marmion', ANQ, 22.4 (2009), 16-19.

Detects echoes of Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' in Scott's Marmion.

Edwards, Simon. 'Home and Away with Walter Scott', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 77-87.

Erickson, Lee. 'The Romantic-Era Book Trade', in A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, ed. Jon Klancher (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 212-31.

Includes a discussion of Scott, pp. 224-26.

Ferguson, Stuart. '"Nostra causa agitur": Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian and George Lukács's Historical Meta-Text', AUMLA, 111 (2009), 47-68.

Ferris, Ina. '"On the Borders of Oblivion": Scott's Historical Novel and the Modern Time of the Remnant', Modern Language Quarterly, 70 (2009), 473-94.

Contends that Scott's historical novels responded to the widespread sense of displacement in postrevolutionary Europe by activating and rewriting the figure of the remnant. As remnant tales, his novels are less about the loss of the past or its relationship to the present than about a disconnection in the present itself. Figures like Edgar Ravenswood (The Bride of Lammermoor) and Henry Morton (Old Mortality) highlight a suspension of connection and continuity that generates a curiously insubstantial existence in the present.

Ferris, Ina. 'Transformations of the Novel - II', in The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature, ed. James Chandler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 473-89.

Fielding, Penny. 'Antiquarianism and the Inscription of the Nation', in Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 101-29.

Fielding, Penny. 'Great North Roads: The Geometries of the Nation', in Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 71-100.

Fielding, Penny. 'Ultima Thule: The Limits of the North', in Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 130-60.

Frey, Anne. 'Speaking for the Law: State Agency in Scott's Novels', in British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), pp. 88-115.

Focuses on The Heart of Mid-Lothian.

Gamer, Michael. 'Waverley and the Object of (Literary) History', Modern Language Quarterly, 70 (2009), 495-525.

Shows how Waverley's status as the first historical novel is largely a fiction of Scott's own making. Examines how Scott's manipulation of its date of composition, his ostentatious rejection of contemporary genres, and his later self-review of the novel effectively cleared Waverley of contemporary competitors and bolstered its claims to newness.Goes on to analyse Scott's complementary strategy of looking beyond contemporary generic models to the mid-eighteenth century form of the object narrative.

García González, José Enrique. 'Estudio y edición traductológica digital de Waverley, de Walter Scott, en traducción anónima, Barcelona, Librería-Imprenta de Oliva, 1836', in Archivo y edición digital de textos literarios y ensayísticos traducidos al español y tratados sobre traducción del siglo XIX, ed. Carmen Acuña Partal and Marcos Rodríguez Espinosa (Granada: Editorial Atrio, 2009), pp. 1-15.

Study of an anonymous Spanish translation of Waverley published in 1836.

Garside, Peter. 'Hogg and Scott's "First Meeting" and the Politics of Literary Friendship', in James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author, ed. Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 21-41.

Gilbert, Suzanne. 'James Hogg and the Authority of Tradition', in James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author, ed. Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 93-109.

Includes a discussion of Hogg's relations with Scott.

Glinoer, Anthony. 'Walter Scott: l'histoire au risque du frénétique', in La Littérature frénétique (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2009)

Discusses Scott's influence on the French roman frénétique; pagination unknown.

Goldsmith, Jason. 'Celebrity and the Spectacle of Nation', in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850, ed. Tom Mole (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 21-40.

Goode, Mike. 'Boredom and the Excitements of History: Settling Interests, Nerves, and Narratives in Rob Roy and Northanger Abbey', in Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 119-46.

Goode, Mike. 'Morbid Antiquaries and Vital Men of Feeling: The Gender of History in the Waverley Novels', in Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 87-118.

An earlier version appeared in Representations, 82 (2003).

Goode, Mike. 'Uneven Manliness and the Separate Spheres of Victorian History', in Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 147-71.

Includes a discussion of the Victorian reception of Scott.

Gottlieb, Evan. 'Sir Walter and Plain Jane: Teaching Scott and Austen Together', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 97-104.

Graver, Bruce. 'Wordsworth, Scott, and the Stereographic Picturesque', Literature Compass, 6.4 (2009), 896-926.

Examines the relationship between nineteenth-century stereo photography and the picturesque tradition. Charts how early landscape stereographers like George Washington Wilson and Thomas Ogle extensively photographed scenes associated with the life and works of William Wordsworth and Walter Scott, creating a photographic iconography of these authors that is an essential, and as yet largely unwritten, part of their reception history.

Hackett, Helen. 'Criticism and Interpretation: Elizabeth as the Key to Shakespeare', in Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), pp. 112-51.

Includes a discussion of Kenilworth.

Hackett, Helen. 'Facts and Fictions in Nineteenth-Century Britain', in Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), pp. 46-94.

Includes a discussion of Kenilworth.

Häcker, Martina. 'History and Tradition: The Background to Scott's Tale Of Old Mortality', Middle Ground, 2 (2009), 96-126.

Hasler, Antony J. 'Framing the Covenanters (Again): Teaching Old Mortality in Context', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 140-49.

Hazard, Erin. 'The Author's House: Abbotsford and Wayside', in Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture, ed. Nicola J. Watson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 63-72.

Hewitt, David. 'Teaching The Heart of Mid-Lothian', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 150-56.

Hill, Richard. 'The Illustration of the Waverley Novels: Scott and Popular Illustrated Fiction', Scottish Literary Review, 1.1 (2009), 69-88.

Hill, Richard. 'Scott, Hogg, and the Gift-Book Editors: Authorship in the Face of Industrial Production’, Romantic Textualities, 19 (2009) <http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/romtext/articles/rt19_n01.html> [accessed 13 July 2010]

Hoeveler, Diane Long. 'Teaching the Female Body as Contested Territory', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 105-14.

Ibn Warraq. 'Sir Walter Scott's Treatment of Jews in Ivanhoe', New English Review, July 2009 <http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/41391/sec_id/41391> [accessed 1 October 2012]

Jager, Colin. 'Literary Enchantment and Literary Opposition from Hume to Scott', Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 92 (2009), 99-128.

Includes a discussion of Scott's treatment of Jacobitism in Waverley. An expanded version of this article appears in the anthology Secular Faith (2011). See also Jager 2015.

Jarrells, Anthony. '"Associations Respect[ing] the Past": Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism', in A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, ed. Jon Klancher (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 57-76.

Includes (pp. 59-71) a discussion of the Waverley Novels.

Lamont, Claire. 'Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone: A Reading with Reference to Scott', Charles Lamb Bulletin, 145 (2009), 24-33.

Reads Wordsworth's long narrative poem The White Doe of Rylstone (1807) with reference to Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Waverley.

Langan, Celeste. '"The Poetry of Pure Memory": Teaching Scott’s Novels in the Context of Romanticism', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 67-76.

Leask, Nigel. '"A degrading species of Alchymy": Ballad Poetics, Oral Tradition, and the Meanings of Popular Culture', in Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland, ed. Philip Connell and Nigel Leask (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 51-71.

Lumsden, Alison. 'Burns, Scott and Intertextuality', in The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns, ed. Gerard Carruthers (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp. 125-136.

Lumsden, Alison. 'Walter Scott', in The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists, ed. Adrian Poole (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2009. pp. 116-31.

Lynch, Deidre. 'Transformations of the Novel - I', in The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature, ed. James Chandler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 451-72.

Mack, Douglas, and Suzanne Gilbert. 'Scottish History in the Waverley Novels', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 26-37.

Martin, Maureen M. 'The Jacobite, the Marriage Plot, and the End of Scottish History', in The Mighty Scot: Nation, Gender, and the Nineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity (Albany: State University of New York Press, c2009), pp. 15-38.

Includes a discussion of Scott's Redgauntlet and Millais's painting The Order of Release.

Matsui, Yuko. 'Walter Scott: chushin nishite kyokai ni ichishita sakka', in Bungakutoshi Edinburgh ([Tokyo?]: Aruba Shobo, 2009)

Japanese-language article on 'Walter Scott, the writer at the centre and the margin'.

Matsui, Yuko. 'Walter Scott no kozumorama: Waverley sosho to katari no enkinho', in Igirisu shosetsu no tanoshimi, ed. Kiyoto Shiotani and Takao Tomiyama (Tokyo: Otowashobotsurumishoten, 2009)

Japanese-language article on 'Walter Scott's cosmorama: the Waverley Novels and narrative structure'.

McConnell, Karen. 'The Romantic Romancer: Walter Scott's Ideological Uses of Medieval Romance', in 'Er ist ein wol gevriunder man': Essays in Honor of Ernst S. Dick on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, ed. Karen McConnell and Winder McConnell (Hildesheim: Olms, 2009), pp. 247-260.

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. '"’Twas Thus the LATEST MINSTREL Sung”: Listening to Waverley with an Un/Conventional Ear', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 130-39.

McKelvy, William R. '"This Enormous Contagion of Paper and Print": Making Literary History in the Age of Steam', in Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900, ed. Ina Ferris and Paul Keen (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 61-84.

Discusses Scott, pp. 67-70, 76-78.

McMullin, Brian. 'Sir Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick, 1811', Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 4 (2009), 69-72.

Offers a short bibliographical comparison between the first Edinburgh and London printings of Scott’s dramatic poem The Vision of Don Roderick, noting differences between the two that have been previously unchronicled by Scott scholars.

McNeil, Kenneth. 'The Limits of Diversity: Using Scott’s “The Two Drovers” to Teach Multiculturalism in a Survey or Nonmajors Course', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 123-29.

Suggests 'The Two Drovers' offers a superb tool for teaching issues of multiculturalism to literature students, especially in a survey or non-majors course. In its concise but dramatic exploration of the dynamics of a multicultural society, Scott’s story introduces students to the questions of national and ethnic identity, cultural difference, and cross-cultural exchange that we grapple with today. At the same time, the brevity and relatively fast pacing of the story make it accessible to a range of students without sacrificing the crucial themes that make Scott an important cultural and literary figure.

Mitchell, Rosemary. 'Charlotte M. Yonge: Reading, Writing, and Recycling Historical Fiction in the Nineteenth Century', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 31 (2009), 31-43.

Charts the presence of Scott's The Talisman as a subtly pervasive intertext in Yonge’s own Chantry House (1886).

Moltke-Hansen, David. 'Southern Literary Horizons in Young America: Imaginative Development of a Regional Geography', Studies in the Literary Imagination, 42.1 (2009),1-31.

Argues that when William Gilmore Simms joined the Young America circle in the late 1830s, his ideas about the relationship between literature, a people, and a nation were strongly influenced by Scott. Charts how he first emulated Scott's Scottish Border romances, then gradually moved from American nationalism to Southern nationalism. After the Civil War, he redirected the romance formulas he had borrowed from Scott and turned to writing humorous tales which targeted the pretensions of the powerful.

Monnickendam, Andrew. 'Guarding the English Flag: the Enigmas of Allegiance in The Talisman', in Écosse: l'identité nationale en question, ed. Bernard Sellin, Annie Thiec, and Pierre Carboni (Nantes:CRINI, 2009)

Pagination unknown.

Mortimer, Anthony. 'The Translations of Walter Scott's Waverley in the Bibliothèque Britannique', in Genève, lieu d’Angleterre, 1725-1814 = Geneva, an English enclave, 1725-1814, ed. Valérie Cossy, Béla Kapossy, and Richard Whatmore (Geneva: Slatkine, 2009), pp. 281-92.

On translated extracts from Scott's Waverley in the Bibliothèque Britannique', a Genevan journal devoted to British literature.

O'Halloran, Meiko. 'National Discourse or Discord?: Transformations of The Family Legend by Baillie, Scott, and Hogg', in James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author, ed. Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 43-55.

Oliver, Susan. 'Planting the Nation's "Waste Lands": Walter Scott, Forestry, and the Cultivation of Scotland's Wilderness', Literature Compass, 6.3 (2009), 585-98.

Examines Scott's review of Robert Monteath's The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter (Quarterly Review, October 1827) as a work of Romantic ecocritism concerned with the relationships between nationhood, economics and natural sustainability. Explores definitions of wasteland and the use of literary references to emphasize the need for sustainable planting. Also surveys the debate over imported Canadian pine.

Piper, Andrew. 'Processing', in Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), pp. 85-120.

Includes (pp. 97-120) a discussion of The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, and Old Mortality.

Ragaz, Sharon. 'The Spurious Tales of My Landlord', The Library, 10 (2009), 41-56.

On the two spurious volumes of Tales of My Landlord published by William Fearman in 1819 and 1820.

Rodríguez Espinosa, Marcos. 'Estudio y edición traductológica digital de El Talismán, de Walter Scott, en traducción de José Joaquín de Mora, Londres, Rudolph Ackermann, 1826', in Archivo y edición digital de textos literarios y ensayísticos traducidos al español y tratados sobre traducción del siglo XIX, ed. Carmen Acuña Partal and Marcos Rodríguez Espinosa (Granada: Editorial Atrio, 2009)

Study of a Spanish translation of The Talisman made by José Joaquín de Mora in 1826; pagination unknown.

Rodríguez Espinosa, Marcos. 'Estudio y edición traductológica digital de Ivanhoe, de Walter Scott, en traducción de José Joaquín de Mora, Londres, Rudolph Ackermann, 1825', in Archivo y edición digital de textos literarios y ensayísticos traducidos al español y tratados sobre traducción del siglo XIX, ed. Carmen Acuña Partal and Marcos Rodríguez Espinosa (Granada: Editorial Atrio, 2009)

Study of a Spanish translation of Ivanhoe made by José Joaquín de Mora in 1825; pagination unknown.

Sabiron, Céline. 'Crossing and Transgressing Borders in The Heart of Midlothian', Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 56 (2009) <http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1001096ar> [accessed 29 August 2011]

Shows how the physical crossing of concrete borders in The Heart of Mid-Lothian often goes with the mental crossing of abstract barriers. Overstepping a physical boundary can lead to transgressing moral and societal limits as exemplified by the Scottish Borders, a den of iniquity and unlawful transactions. External borders can thus embody more internal boundaries and serve to map territories of the mind.

Salmon, Richard. 'The Physiognomy of the Lion: Encountering Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century', in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850, ed. Tom Mole (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 60-78.

Schoenfield, Mark. 'Proliferating Voices: Founding the Quarterly Review and Maga', in British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The 'Literary Lower Empire' (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 79-110.

Includes a discussion of Scott's role in founding the Tory-leaning Quarterly Review and of his political opposition to the pro-Whig Edinburgh Review.

Shaw, Harry E. 'Is There a Problem with Historical Fiction (or with Scott's Redgauntlet)?', Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, 209 (2009).

Reprint of an article that originally appeared in Rethinking History, 9 (2005); pagination unknown.

Shields, Juliet. 'Savage and Scott-ish Masculinity in The Last of the Mohicans and The Prairie: James Fenimore Cooper and the Diasporic Origins of American Identity', Nineteenth-Century Literature, 64 (2009), 137-62.

Reassesses James Fenimore Cooper's literary relationship to Scott by examining the depiction of Scots in The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and The Prairie (1827). These novels represent the imperial migrations of Scots as a cause of Native Americans' unfortunate, but for Cooper seemingly inevitable, eradication. They also trace the development of an American identity that incorporates feudal chivalry and savage fortitude and that is formed through cultural appropriation rather than racial mixing.

Simmons, Clare A. 'Proof and Truth: Teaching the Waverley Novels in the Law and Literature Class', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 115-22.

Simpson, Erik. '"A Good One Though Rather for the Foreign Market": Mercenary Writing and Scott's Quentin Durward', Studies in Romanticism, 48 (2009), 667-85.

See E. Simpson 2010 for an expanded version of this article.

Smajic, Srdjan. 'Supernatural Realism', Novel, 42 (2009), 1-22.

Discusses Waverley as one of three case studies where the supernatural proves pivotal to the novelist's realist project.

Sorensen, Janet. '"Something Glee’d": The Uses of Language in Scott’s Waverley Novels', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 38-49.

Stubbs, Jonathan. 'Hollywood's Middle Ages: The Development of Knights of the Round Table and Ivanhoe, 1935-53', Exemplaria, 21 (2009), 398-417.

Includes a discussion of Richard Thorpe's cinematic adaptation of Ivanhoe (1952).

Swaim, Barton. '"A deal more safe as well as dignified": Lockhart's Modified Amateurism and the Shame of Authorship', in Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834 (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009), pp. 102-34.

Argues that Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837-38) resolves a conflict in his aesthetic theory between the idealization of amateurism and of its seeming opposite, professionalism. For Lockhart, Scott represents life in its fullness and complexity precisely because he makes his living outside literature. In this sense, Scott remains an amateur even after he achieves fame and financial success. An earlier version appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, 39 (2006).

Todd, Emily B. 'Establishing Routes for Fiction in the United States: Walter Scott's Novels and the Early Nineteenth-Century American Publishing Industry', Book History, 12 (2009), 100-28.

Tulloch, Graham. 'Imagining the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Ivanhoe and Kenilworth', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 164-69.

Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini T. 'Wavering over Borderlines: History and Fiction in Walter Scott', Ilha do Desterro, 57 (2009), 139-55.

Wallace, Tara Ghoshal. 'Thinking Globally: The Talisman and "The Surgeon’s Daughter"', in Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009), pp. 170-76.

Webb, Timothy. 'John Martin and the Recognition of Visionary Art: Edwin Atherstone, Walter Scott, and an Unpublished Correspondence', Studies in Hogg and his World, 20 (2009), 38-66.

Publishes and analyzes correspondence between Scott and Edwin Atherstone (1788-1871), a composer, poet, novelist, and art-dealer.

White, Simon J. 'Ivanhoe, Robin Hood and the Pentridge Rising', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 31 (2009), 209-24.

Argues that Scott deliberately highlights parallels between the action of Ivanhoe and the Pentridge Rising of 1817.

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