Articles and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2011

Articles and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2011

An Annotated Bibliography

Alexander, Michael. 'Architecture in Historical Fiction: A Historical and Comparative Study', in Conjuring the Real: The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Fiction, ed. Rumiko Handa and James Potter (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2011), pp. 67-86.

Discusses Scott throughout with particular reference to Ivanhoe.

Barnaby, Paul. 'Restoration Politics and Sentimental Poetics in A.-J.-B. Defauconpret's Translations of Sir Walter Scott', Translation and Literature, 20 (2011), 6-28.

Shows how A.-J.-B. Defauconpret's French translations of Old Mortality and Rob Roy followed a politically conservative agenda, reconfiguring Scott for a Legitimist, Catholic, post-Napoleonic readership. Political rewriting went hand in hand with an aesthetic project as Defauconpret refashioned Scott's protagonists to resemble the domestic heroes of the French sentimental novel.Yet Defauconpret inadvertently created an influential formal hybrid which not only caused the French historical novel to diverge radically from Scott's model but played a significant role in the evolution of the French realist novel.

Bell, Barbara. 'The National Drama and the Nineteenth Century', in The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama, ed. Ian Brown (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 47-59.

Includes a discussion of adaptations of Scott's novels, particularly Rob Roy.

Beshero-Bondar, Elisa. 'Medieval Minstrelsy and the Female Curse on History', in Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011), pp. 67-124.

Includes sections on 'Scott's Romantic Epics and the Ossianic Politics of Scottish Nationalism' (pp. 73-85) and 'Staging Female Minstrels: Baillie's Influence on Scott' (pp. 85-90). Works discussed include The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake.

Broomhall, Susan, and David G. Barrie. 'Changing of the Guard: Governance, Policing, Masculinity, and Class in the Porteous Affair and Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian', Parergon, 28 (2011), 65-90.

Argues that, in contrast to eighteenth-century portrayals of the case, Scott's treatment of the Porteous Riots of Edinburgh (1736) in The Heart of Mid-Lothian was significant in bringing to prominence a paradigm in which working-class men could contribute to civic management through policing, so long as they embraced long-held notions of masculine control held by both the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century urban elite.

Buchanan, David. 'Romantic Revolutions and Transnational Assemblages: The Waverley Novel in the Age of Modernity', in New Word Order: Transnational Themes in Book History, ed. Swapan Chakravorty and Abhijit Gupta (Delhi: Worldview, 2011), pp. 94-117.

Identifies national and develops transnational approaches to book history by considering thematic, formal, and material means of transmission relevant to the participation of the Waverley Novel in modern self-identity and group formation, with particular emphasis on The Heart of Mid-Lothian.

Cabajsky, Andrea. 'Plagiarizing Sir Walter Scott: The Afterlife of Kenilworth in Victorian Quebec', Novel, 44 (2011), 354-81.

Carroll, Siobhan. 'Resurrecting Redgauntlet: The Transformation of Walter Scott's Nationalist Revenants in Bram Stoker's Dracula', inVictorian Transformations: Genre, Nationalism, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, ed. Bianca Tredennick (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 115-32.

Çelikkol, Ayse. ‘Walter's Scott's Disloyal Smugglers’, in Romances of Free Trade: British Literature, Laissez-Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University, 2011), pp. 21-42.

Discusses Guy Mannering and Redgauntlet. An earlier version appeared in ELH, 74 (2007).

Chiu, Kang-yen. 'Reading the Subaltern in Scott', in Bonds and Borders: Identity, Imagination, and Transformation in Literature, ed. Rebecca DeWald and Dorette Sobolewski (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), pp. 9-18.

Daly, Suzanne. 'Plunder as Property: Diamonds', in The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2011), pp. 61-83.

Includes (pp. 63-65) a discussion of the treatment of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan (Scott's 'Prince Tippoo Saib') in 'The Surgeon's Daughter'.

Duncan, Ian. 'The Historical Novel', in Charles Dickens in Context, ed. Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 158-65.

Includes a discussion of the Waverley Novels (pp. 158-62) with particular reference to The Heart of Mid-Lothian.

Duncan, Ian. 'The Trouble with Man: Scott, Romance, and World History in the Age of Lamarck', Romantic Circles: Praxis Series, Sept. 2011 (Romantic Frictions, ed. Theresa M. Kelley) <http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/praxis/frictions/HTML/praxis.2011.duncan.html> [accessed 13 September 2011]

A discussion of Count Robert of Paris which argues that Scott's late novel turns away from national history to world history, to imagine the dissolution of the Enlightenment figure of a universal human nature.

Duncan, Ian. 'Urban Space and Enlightened Romanticism', in The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism, ed. Murray Pittock (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 72-83.

Includes a discussion of Scott (pp. 72-76).

Duncan, Ian. 'We Were Never Human: Monstrous Forms of Nineteenth-Century Fiction', in Victorian Transformations: Genre, Nationalism, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, ed. Bianca Tredennick (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 7-27.

Includes (pp. 12-15) a discussion of Scott with reference to Waverley and Ivanhoe.

Favret, Mary A. 'Field of History, Field of Battle', Romantic Circles: Praxis Series, Sept. 2011 (Romantic Frictions, ed. Theresa M. Kelley) <http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/praxis/frictions/HTML/praxis.2011.favret.html> [accessed 13 September 2011]

Includes a discussion of the 'Dedicatory Epistle' to Ivanhoe (particularly as discussed by James Chandler in his England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (1998)).

Gottlieb, Evan. '"Almost the Same as Being Innocent": Celebrated Murderesses and National Narratives in Scott’s The Heart of Mid-Lothian and Atwood’s Alias Grace', in Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives, ed. Michael Gardiner, Graeme Macdonald, and Niall O’Gallagher (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 30-42.

Graefe, Melinda. 'Negotiations of Nostalgia: Strangeness and Xenodochy in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe', postmedieval, 2 (2011), 186-200.

Ivanhoe is on one level a novel about the futility of nostalgia, and is critical of characters who attempt to live in the past. At the same time, it evokes a powerful longing for 'Olden Times' through its representations of the medieval home. This article argues that the reflective-nostalgic figures of hospitality and home are used by Scott to engage his readers emotionally with the strange and with the idea of the stranger.

Hamnett, Brian. 'Scottish Flowering: Turbulence or Enlightenment', in The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Representations of Reality in History & Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 71-99.

A chapter on the Scottish contribution to the historical novel, with two sections specifically devoted to Scott: 'Themes and issues in the Waverley Novels' and 'Scott and the problem of England'. There are further extensive references to Scott throughout the monograph.

Lynch, Andrew. 'Nostalgia and Critique: Walter Scott's "Secret Power"', postmedieval, 2 (2011), 201-15.

Argues that Scott's medievalist works (including Marmion, The Monastery, The Abbot, The Talisman, The Betrothed, and Ivanhoe) exhibit a ‘reflective nostalgia', which blends creative ‘nostalgic memory’ with ‘critical memory', and which stages the containment of private chivalric enthusiasm within a respect for political and military realities. Nevertheless, Scott's view of historical change as largely effected by military power also refuses to underwrite history as either providential or inherently progressive. His distinctive nostalgia asserts the lost potential of the past as a missing presence in the here and now.

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. 'Walter Scott's Romanticism: A Theory of Performance', in The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism, ed. Murray Pittock (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 139-49.

Discusses, in particular, The Fortunes of Nigel and The Pirate.

Rowlinson, Matthew. 'Allegory and Exchange in the Waverley Novels', Romantic Circles: Praxis Series, Sept. 2011 (Romantic Frictions, ed. Theresa M. Kelley) <http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/praxis/frictions/HTML/praxis.2011.rowlinson.html> [accessed 13 September 2011]

Argues that the indeterminate form in which Scott sold the labour embodied in his novels is allegorized in traits of the novels themselves (with particular reference to The Antiquary).

Signaroli, Simone. 'Fra i libri dell'antiquario: leggendo i romanzi di Sir Walter Scott', Misinta, 37 (2011), 19-22 <http://www.misinta.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/MISINTA-37-samallest.pdf> [accessed 3 April 2012]

Italian-language article on antiquarians and bibliophiles in the Waverley Novels with particular reference to the Baron Bradwardine (Waverley), Dominie Sampson (Guy Mannering), and Jonathan Oldbuck (The Antiquary).

Simmons, Clare A. 'Scottish Lawyers, Feudal Law', in Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 167-90.

On Ivanhoe.

Simmons, Clare A. 'Taking Medievalism Home: The National Melody', in Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 57-80.

Includes a discussion of Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

Toda, Fernando. 'The Function of Linguistic Variety in Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian', in The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism, ed. Murray Pittock (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 190-201.

Tomko, Michael. 'Scott's Ivanhoe and the Saxon Question', in British Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History, and National Identity, 1778-1829 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 148-18.

Discusses Scott's views on Catholic Emancipation and on the relationship between religion and national identity.

Valseriati, Enrico. 'Al cospetto del diavolo zoppo: Camillo Ugoni, Giuseppe Nicolini e Walter Scott', Misinta, 37 (2011), 5-10 <http://www.misinta.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/MISINTA-37-samallest.pdf> [accessed 3 April 2012]

Concerns two writers from Brescia, Italy, active in the Risorgimento movement: Camillo Ugoni (1784-1855) who met Scott in Edinburgh in 1823, and Giovanni Nicolini (1789-1855), author of a biographical sketch of Scott.

Watson, Nicola J. 'Fandom mapped: Rousseau, Scott and Byron on the Itinerary of Lady Frances Shelley', Romantic Circles: Praxis Series, Aprl 2011 (Romantic Fandom, ed. Eric Eisner) <http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/praxis/fandom/HTML/praxis.2010.watson.html> [accessed 13 September 2011]

Includes a discussion of Lady Frances Shelley's visit to Abbotsford in 1819.

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