Articles and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2010

Articles and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2010

An Annotated Bibliography

Berton, Jean. 'Translating Scottish Literary Texts: A Linguistic Clover-Leaf', International Journal of Scottish Literature, 7 (2010) <http://www.ijsl.stir.ac.uk/issue7/berton.htm> [accessed 26 August 2011]

Includes a discussion of French translations of Scott by A.-J-B. Defauconpret and Sylvère Monod.

Buck, Michael, and Peter Garside. 'New Materials Discovered at Abbotsford', Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 5 (2010), 65-83.

Camden, Jennifer. 'Scott and the Origins of Historical Romance', in Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 59-93.

Compares the roles of Rebecca and Rowena in Ivanhoe and of Flora MacIvor and Rose Bradwardine in Waverley.

Carson, James P. 'Popular versus Legitimate Authority in Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian', in Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel (Basingstoke: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 45-74.

Carson, James P. 'Scott and the Romantic Dog', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33 (2010), 647-61.

Noting the centrality of dogs in Walter Scott's life and novels, this article argues that animal metaphors mark the transgression of the boundary between human and animal. Guy Mannering employs animal metaphor conventionally, with the hierarchy of dog breeds serving as a model for and rationalisation of inequality in human society. In The Black Dwarf, however, Scott questions whether society can be a founded on a conception of the natural order. For Scott, dogs provide access to affect and, owing to their connections with memory, help to construct human subjectivity.

Cavaliero, Roderick. 'Scott and the Quest for Chivalry: The Myth of the Crusades', in Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010), pp. 159-72.

Discusses The Betrothed, Ivanhoe, The Siege of Malta, and The Talisman.

Cronin, Richard. 'Jack and Gill', in Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 203-28.¹

Includes discussions of Scott's The Abbot, Guy Mannering, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Rob Roy, Saint Ronan's Well, and 'The Duel of Wharton and Stuart'.

Cronin, Richard. 'Pistols and Horsewhips', in Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 123-53.

Includes discussions of Scott on dueling (pp. 123-24) and on the literary profession (pp. 145-52), the latter with particular reference to The Fortunes of Nigel, Kenilworth, and Saint Ronan's Well.

Cronin, Richard. 'Two Dinners', in Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 18-38.

Includes discussions of Scott's involvement with the Edinburgh Pitt Dinner of 1821 (pp. 19-20), and the journal The Beacon (pp. 20-22). Also refers to The Antiquary (pp. 25-31), The Fortunes of Nigel (pp. 24-25), and The Abbot (pp. 31-32).

Cronin, Richard. 'Two Duels', in Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 1-17.

Includes discussions of Scott's involvement with the Tory journals The Sentinel and The Beacon (pp. 8-10) and in the events leading to the duel between Jonathan Christie and John Scott on 16 February 1821 which resulted in the latter's death (esp. pp. 16-17).

Davidson, Mary Catherine. 'Medievalism and Monolingualism', in Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 17-44.

Includes a discussion of Ivanhoe as a work of popular language history.

De Groot, Jerome. 'Sir Walter Scott: The Waverley Novels and their Influence', in The Historical Novel (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 17-23.

Focuses in particular on Waverley.

De Groot, Jerome. 'Theoretical Paradigms: George Lukács and the Birth of the Historical Novel', in The Historical Novel (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 24-29.

Discusses Lukács's reading of Scott in his The Historical Novel (1937) with particular reference to Waverley.

De Groot, Jerome. 'Theoretical Paradigms: Manzoni, the "Naked Historian"', in The Historical Novel (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 29-32.

Discusses Manzoni's transformation of Scott's model for the historical novel, with particular reference to Waverley.

Drake, George A. '"Fanciful Devotion": Ritualization in Walter Scott's Old Mortality', Studies in Romanticism, 49 (2010), 133-52.

Duggett, Tom. 'Introduction', in Gothic Romanticism: Architecture, Politics, and Literary Form (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 1-24.

Includes a discussion of Scott, pp. 11-15.

García Díaz, Enrique. 'Los relatos góticos de Sir Walter Scott: "La habitación tapizada"', Narrativas, 17 (2010), 42-45 <http://carlosmanzano.net/narrativas/narrativas17.pdf> [accessed 11 June 2010]

A brief Spanish-language study identifying Gothic elements in Scott's short story 'The Tapestried Chamber' and situating them within the British Gothic tradition.

Garside, Peter. 'Illustrating the Waverley Novels: Scott, Scotland, and the London Print Trade, 1819-1836', The Library, 11 (2010), 168-96.

Gottlieb, Evan. 'Blameless Empires and Long-Forgotten Melodies: Anne Grant’s The Highlanders, Walter Scott’s The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and the Poetry of Sympathetic Britishness', JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, 40 (2010), 253-74.

Hoagwood, Terence. 'Sir Walter Scott: "Ballad Deception", and Romantic Pseudo-Songs' in From Song to Print: Romantic Pseudo-Songs (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 23-44.

Discusses Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

Jordan, Christopher. 'A Spode Plaque of Abbotsford, Home of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)', Spode Society Review, 3 (May 2010), 974-75.

Discusses a felspar porcelain plaque of Abbotsford House made by Spode of Stoke-on-Trent which belongs to the ceramic collection of the Cuming Museum, Southwark, London. Concludes that the design is based on an engraving by William Home Lizars which was published as a frontispiece to James Morton's Abbeys of Teviotdale & Abbotsford, the Seat of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1832).

Krueger, Christine L. 'The Motives of Advocacy', in Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy (Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2010), pp. 201-54.

Includes (pp. 224-26) a discussion of infanticide in The Heart of Mid-Lothian, as compared to George Eliot's treatment of the same theme in Adam Bede.

Krueger, Christine L. 'Precedent', in Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy (Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2010), pp. 23-98.

Includes (pp. 87-91) a discussion of Scott and witchcraft, with particular reference to Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft.

Martínez García, Montserrat. 'Anti-Nationalism in Scott's Old Mortality', CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 12.1 (2010) <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol12/iss1/5> [accessed 27 August 2010]

Charts the relationship between national identity and war in Old Mortality and examines how far it coincide or conflicts with the uniform ideology of nationalism. Argues that, far from being a blinkered nationalist, Scott's narrative of war and its accompanying ideologies reveal that in the novel historical, political, and religious identities do not constitute the text as a description of a homogeneous nation and that Scott's text can stand as a narrative against nineteenth-century nationalism in England.

Mergenthal, Silvia. '"An Imaginary Line Drawn through Waste and Wilderness": Scott's The Talisman', in Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Place, ed. Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010), pp. 209-19.

Moore, Dafydd. '"A Blank Made": Ossian, Sincerity, and the Possibilities of Forgerty', in Romanticism, Sincerity, and Authenticity, ed. Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 58-79.

Includes (pp. 62-69) a discussion of the themes of chivalry and romance in Waverley.

Oliver, Susan. 'Ecologies of Disaffection: Interpreting Wastelands in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly and Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor', in An Interpretive Turn: Art, Literature, and Culture in the 19th and 20th Century, ed. H. H. Yuan and S. F. Lui (Taipei: Bookman, 2010), pp. 23-39.

Rigney, Ann. 'The Many Afterlives of Ivanhoe', in Performing the Past: Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe, ed. Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree, and Jay Winter (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010), pp. 207-33.

Rowlinson, Matthew. 'Curiosities and the Money Form in the Waverley Novels', in Real Money and Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 55-99.

Discusses, in particular, The Antiquary, The Betrothed, and The Talisman.

Sabiron, Céline. 'Homecoming and Liminality in Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering', Études écossaises, 13 (2010), 103-17.

Shows how Scott’s Guy Mannering stages three different kinds of homecoming (Bertram/Brown, Meg Merrilies, Mannering himself). The returning exiles find themselves constantly out of place and time, inhabiting a liminal space at the periphery of a country and at the margin of society, and a liminal time between chronological linearity and cyclical circularity. Ultimately, their homecomings prove mutually exclusive, as each claims the same home (Ellangowan) and can only be realized in the literary home created by Scott himself.

Sabiron, Céline. 'Places in Translation in Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian', Études anglaises, 63 (2010), 402-11.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian is Walter Scott’s novel of mobility, encompassing the whole of Great Britain. Yet, the translation of verbal maps into geographical ones only leads to a pseudo-translation as places prove unmappable. Jeanie’s Scottish place of residence seems to follow her wherever she travels, as if it were ‘transplanted’ or, more precisely, translated. Ungraspable and unfixable, places are transferred from the real to the imaginary where space and time are changeable and deformable at will through the imagination of the narrator, the characters and the reader.

Sabiron, Céline. 'Le Rôle de l’intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d’une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott', E-rea, 7.2 (2010) <http://erea.revues.org/1213> [accessed 31 August 2010]

Analyses how Scott's depiction of the Highlands in Waverley and Rob Roy rhetorically weaves together images drawn from national myth and pre-existing literary works in order to create a new post-Union, post-Culloden Scottisn national identity.

Savy, Nicole. 'De William Shakespeare à Walter Scott', in Les Juifs des romantiques: le discours de la littérature sur les Juifs, de Chateaubriand à Hugo (Paris : Belin, 2010).

On Scott's treatment of Jewish characters and its influence on the depiction of Jews in French Romanticism; pagination unknown.

Shields, Juliet. 'Rebellions and Re-Unions in the Historical Novel', in Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 139-72.

Includes discussions of The Bride of Lammermoor (pp. 144-52) and St. Ronan's Well (pp. 165-69).

Stevens, Anne H. 'Epilogue: Ivanhoe and Historical Fiction', in British Historical Fiction before Scott (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 150-63.

Tredennick, Bianca. '"A Labor of Death and a Labor against Death": Scott's Cenotaphic Paratexts', European Romantic Review, 21 (2010), 49-64.

Argues that the paratexts (notes, introductions, etc.) that Scott prepared for the Magnum Opus edition of the Waverley Novels must be seen as essential components of his historiography. Through the paratexts, Scott offers a complex reading of his own historiographic work, one that denies any simple claims to recapturing or revivifying the past in favor of an honest reckoning with the way in which all historical projects become cenotaphic replacements for that which they seek to memorialize.

Wallace, Tara Ghoshal. 'Rhetorical Manipulations: Walter Scott's Guy Mannering and "The Surgeon's Daughter"', in Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2010), pp. 146-66.

An earlier version appeared in European Romantic Review, 13 (2002).

Watson, Nicola J. 'Readers of Romantic Locality: Tourists, Loch Katrine and The Lady of the Lake', in Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Place, ed. Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010), pp. 67-79.

Wolfson, Susan J. 'Gazing on "Byron": Separation and Fascination', in Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), pp. 211-52.

Includes a discussion of Scott's views on Byron.

Notes

¹ There are numerous references to Scott throughout Cronin's monograph. The current page lists only those chapters where they appear to be most extensive.

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