Articles and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2012

Articles and Chapters on Sir Walter Scott Published in 2012

An Annotated Bibliography

Alexander, Christine. '"For Fiction, Read Scott Alone": The Legacy of Sir Walter Scott on Youthful Artists and Writers', in The Shadow of the Precursor, ed. Diana Glenn, Md Rezaul Haque, Ben Kooyman, and Nena Bierbaum (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), pp. 106-23.

Focuses, in particular, on Scott's influence on the youthful Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Alison, Jim. 'Wildness and Wet: Artistic Interactions and the Trossachs' Designation as a National Park', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 70-84.

Baker, Samuel. 'Scott's Worlds of War', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 70-81.

Focuses, in particular, on The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Berndt, Katrin. 'Civic Virtues in the Restless Polity: Sir Walter Scott's Fergusonian vision of British civil society in Redgauntlet (1824)', Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 41 (2012), 115-35.

Bisson, Sarah. ‘La Surface instable à l’origine du paysage national écossais: un paradoxe étudié dans trois romans “Jacobites” de Sir Walter Scott’, in La Surface instable, ed. Maryline Maigron and Anne-Lise Perotto (Chambéry: Éditions de l'université de Savoie, 2012), pp. 35-46.

Brown, Ian. 'Literary Pilgrimage as Cultural imperialism and 'Scott-land', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 1-28.

Carmona-Centeno, David. 'Eveline Berenger's "Epipolesis" to Different Nations in The Betrothed: The Greco-Roman Historiographical Sources of Walter Scott', International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 19 (2012), 183-202.

Traces the influence of classical historiography on The Betrothed, first showing the sources used to create the character of Eveline Berenger, and secondly demonstrating how Scott's knowledge of classical and especially Roman historiography is evident at the beginning of Chapter VIII where he follows the model of Alexander the Great's epipolesis prior to the Battle of Issus, as reported by Quintus Curtius (3.10). In this passage, the heroine, Eveline Berenger harangues the different nations that comprise her army, as if she were a general in a description of a battle in ancient historiography.

Caserio, Robert L. 'Imperial Romance', in The Cambridge History of the English Novel, ed. Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 517-32.

Includes a discussion (pp. 517-22) of 'The Surgeon's Daughter'.

Cowan, Yuri, and Marysa Demoor. 'Scott’s Minstrelsy and Victorian Ballad Anthologies: Authorship, Editing, and Authority', Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 60 (2012), 47-63.

Dick, Alexander. 'Scott and Political Economy', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 118-29.

Dick, Alexander. 'Walter Scott and the Financial Crash of 1825: Fiction, Speculation, and the Standard of Value', Romantic Circles: Praxis Series, Feb. 2012 (Romanticism, Forgery, and the Credit Crunch, ed. Ian Haywood) <http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/praxis/forgery/HTML/praxis.2011.dick.html> [accessed 24 February 2012]

Reads Scott’s Letters of Malachi Malagrowther and Chronicles of the Canongate as ‘speculative’ responses to the financial crisis of 1825. Argues that Scott attempts to revive the idea of “speculation” — here defined as both an act of imagination and an act of seeing — against English models of economic diversification. The Chronicles document the failure of this speculative economy and replace it with a tenuous if critical mode of socio-economic comparison. A revised and expanded version appears in Dick's Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Duncan, Ian. 'Late Scott', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 130-42.

Duncan, Ian. 'Scott and the Historical Novel: A Scottish Rise of the Novel', in The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature, ed. Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 103-16.

Duncan, Ian. 'Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic’, in A New Companion to the Gothic, ed. David Punter (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 123-134.

Places Scott's verse and fiction within a Scottish Gothic tradition which associates the national with the uncanny or supernatural, with particular reference to The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Waverley.

Dunnigan, Sarah. 'The Enchanted Worlds of Scott, Scotland, and the Grimms', Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 18 (2012), 249-74.

Explores the imaginative, cultural, and intellectual affinities between the Grimm brothers and Scott, an overlooked facet of the relationship between Scottish and German Romanticism. The Grimms' fascination for Scottish traditional belief is also mediated through the work of Irish antiquary, Thomas Crofton Croker, publisher of their essay on 'The Elves in Scotland'. Here, Scott's position as Scotland's most eminent 'fairy historian' appears supplanted by another collector of "enchantment", William Grant Stewart. Unravelling the connections between Scott, Croker, Stewart, and the Grimms helps to illuminate shared aspects of cultural nationalism, popular antiquarianism, and neomedievalism which emerge out of fairy belief and the idea of enchantment in early 19th-century Europe.

Durie, Alastair J. 'Scott and Tourism', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 45-55.

Dziennik, Matthew P. 'Whig Tartan: Material Culture and its Use in the Scottish Highlands, 1746–1815', Past & Present, 217 (2012), 117-47.

Includes a discussion of Waverley, which argues that by 1814, Scott had no need to imagine characters which symbolized loyalty to the Union against external (i.e. French) effeminacy; they were already personified in the garbed figure of the Highland elite.

Ferber, Michael. 'Scott's Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field', in The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 173-76.

Ferris, Ina. 'Scott's Authorship and Book Culture', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 9-21.

Fry, Michael. '"The Key to their Hearts": Scottish Orientalism', Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 18 (2012), 137-57.

Includes a discussion of 'The Surgeon's Daughter'.

Furner, Jennifer. 'Sir Walter Scott', in Orientalist Writers, ed. Coeli Fitzpatrick and Dwayne A. Tunstall (Detroit, MI: Gale, 2012), pp. 268-77.

Furniss, Tom. '"A place much celebrated in England"': Loch Katrine and the Trossachs before The Lady of the Lake', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 29-44.

García González, José Enrique. 'Sir Walter Scott Translated and (Self-)Censored as Children’s and Adolescents’ Literature in Franco’s Spain', in Aspects of Literary Translation: Building Linguistic and Cultural Bridge [sic] in Past and Present, ed. Eva Parra-Membrives, Miguel Ángel García Peinado and Albrecht Classen (Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2012), pp. 217-34.

García González, José Enrique. 'Waverley de Walter Scott, en la traducción de José María Heredia (1833)', Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (2012)

An essay accompanying a digital reprint of the first Spanish-language translation of Waverley, published in Mexico (1833) by the Cuban poet José María Heredia. It provides a) a brief overview of Scott's international reception, b) a translation history of Waverley in the Spanish-speaking world, and c) an analysis of the Heredia translation on three levels: pretextual, macrostructural and microstructural. Click here for the essay.

Garofalo, Daniela. 'Impossible Things: Scott's Ivanhoe and the Limits of Exchange', in Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 119-38.

Garside, Peter. 'Hogg and the Book Trade', in The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg, ed. Ian Duncan and Douglas S. Mack (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 21-30.

Includes (pp. 22-24) a discussion of Hogg's relations with Scott.

Gottlieb, Evan. 'Walter Scott', in The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Moore Goslee, and Diane Long Hoeveler (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 1199-1213.

Hewitt, David. 'Rob Roy: Trade, Improvement and the Destruction of 'Native' Cultures', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 85-97.

Hook, Andrew. 'Scotland, the USA, and National Literatures in the Nineteenth Century', Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 18 (2012), 37-52.

Early 19th-century US-British tensions caused much cultural anxiety in the USA, not least because of attacks on the idea of American literature from a periodical press largely based in Edinburgh. This article discusses US responses. James Fenimore Cooper proposed that US literature model itself on English literature. Other commentators suggested the period of Scottish literary romanticism from Allan Ramsay to Scott. John Neal influentially saw Scottish literature's concentration on indigenous landscape, particular in the Waverley Novels, as the way forward for American literature. In following Scott's example, writers of American romance fiction brought forth an imaginative landscape that features complex iterations of the civilised and the primitive.

Jones, Catherine. 'History and Historiography', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 59-69.

Focuses, in particular, on The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Kairoff, Claudia T. 'Under Suspicious Circumstances: The (Critical) Disappearance of Anna Seward', in Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press, 2012), pp. 15-31.

Includes (pp. 18-23) a discussion of Scott's preface to his edition of Anna Seward's Poetical Works (1810).

Keppler-Tasaki, Stefan. 'Britische Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit: Gustav Freytags Die Ahnen und der Massstab Walter Scotts', in Rezeptionskulturen: Fünfhundert Jahre Literarischer Mittelalterrezeption Zwischen Kanon und Populärkultur, ed. Mathias Herweg and Stefan Keppler-Tasaki (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012), pp. 185-209.

Discusses Scott's influence on Die Ahnen (1872-80), a series of historical romances by the German novelist Gustav Freytag.

Kucich, John. 'Modernization and the Organic Society', in The Oxford History of the Novel in English. 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880, ed. John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 343-60.

Includes (pp. 346-48) a discussion of Ivanhoe and Kenilworth.

Levy, Lindsay. 'Was Sir Walter Scott a Bibliomaniac?', in From Compositors to Collectors: Essays on Book-Trade History, ed. John Hinks and Matthew Day (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2012), pp. 309-21.

Lumsden, Alison, and Ainsley McIntosh. 'The Narrative Poems', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 35-46.

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. 'Prediction of Things Past: Scott and the Triumph of the Author's Antiquity', Anglistik, 23.2 (2012), 41-50.

Argues that Scott meets 21st-century concerns through a prescient interest in old age, explored in his characters (such as Jonathan Oldbuck in The Antiquary), in the ‘Author of Waverley’, and in himself. McCracken-Flesher reads Scott’s characters and his consideration of his own life according to Kathleen Woodward’s critique of Freud in Aging and Its Discontents, and Bill Jones’s considerations of ‘Thing Theory’. She argues that Scott ultimately embraces the translation of self into thing through the aging body in a way that anticipates our current critique of lack and its challenging opposite: excess.

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. 'Scott's Jacobitical Plots', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 47-58.

On Waverley, Rob Roy, Redgauntlet, 'The Highland Widow', and Tales of a Grandfather.

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. 'The Story Begins: The Law versus the Press, and the Doctor versus Walter Scott', in The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 28-55.

McDonagh, Josephine . 'Place, Region, and Migration', in The Oxford History of the Novel in English. 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880, ed. John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 361-76.

Includes (pp. 371-74) a discussion of Guy Mannering .

MacDonald, Murdo. 'Rethinking Scott, his Literary Predecessors and the Imagery of the Highlands', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 124-32.

McMillan, Dorothy. 'On the Look-Out for Beauty: Dorothy Wordsworth in the Trossachs', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 113-23.

McNeil, Kenneth. 'Ballads and Borders', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 22-34.

On Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

Mack, Douglas S. 'Politics and the Presbyterian Tradition', in The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg, ed. Ian Duncan and Douglas S. Mack (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 64-72.

Includes (pp. 67-70) a discussion of Hogg's relations with Scott.

Manderson, David. 'Location, Dislocation: Film and the Trossachs', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 141-53.

Manning, Susan. 'Walter Scott (1771-1832): The Historical Novel', in The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists, ed. Michael Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 140-58.

Marshall, George. 'Scott and the Reformation of Religion', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 82-92.

Napton, Dani, and Stephanie Russo. 'Place in Charlotte Smith's The Banished Man and Walter Scott's Woodstock', Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 52 (2012), 747-63.

Smith's The Banished Man (1794) and Scott's Woodstock contain a considered analysis of the social impacts of revolution and the potential for ideology to warp into an ugly reality of principles abandoned. J. E. Malpas's notions of place form a prism through which to view both Smith's and Scott's explorations of the various ideological stances and associated domestic and political issues. In The Banished Man, Smith uses place to construct a revolutionary position grounded in cosmopolitanism. Scott's focus on place enables him to establish a very different argument , maintaining a counterrevolutionary position but a wary, qualified one.

Newton, Michael. '"Woe to him who has lost his voice": Re-Discovering the Gaelic Literature of the Lennox and Menteith', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 98-112.

Nord, Deborah Epstein. 'Spaces and Places (I): The Four Nations', in The Cambridge History of the English Novel, ed. Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 325-40.

Pittock, Murray. 'Sir Walter Scott: Historiography Contested by Fiction', in The Cambridge History of the English Novel, ed. Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 277-91.

Punter, David. 'Scottish Gothic', in The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature, ed. Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 132-44.

Includes (pp. 133-36) a discussion of Scott's contribution to the Gothic, with particular reference to The Bride of Lammermoor.

Rennie, Susan. 'Sir Walter Scott's Contributions to the Supplement', in Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 195-201, 243-254 (Appendix).

On Scott's contributions to John Jamieson's Supplement to The Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1825).

Robertson, Fiona. 'Romancing and Romanticism', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 93-105.

Rowland, Ann Wierda. 'The Layers and Forms of the Child's Mind: Scott, Wordsworth, and Antiquarianism', in Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 224-61.

Focuses in particular on Guy Mannering and The Antiquary.

Sage, Victor. 'Scott contre Hoffmann: le combat du gothique européen pour la modernité', in Persistances gothiques dans la littérature et les arts de l'image, ed. Laurent Guillaud & Gilles Menegaldo (Paris: Editions Bragelonne, 2012).

Pagination unknown.

Sage, Victor. 'Scott, Hoffmann, and the Persistence of the Gothic', in Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000, ed. Andrew Cusack and Barry Murnane (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012), pp. 76-86.

Sakhkhane, Taoufiq. 'Representation and Resistance', in Spivak and Postcolonialism: Exploring Allegations of Textuality (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 57-75.

Includes (pp. 58-63) a discussion of Scott's The Talisman.

Scott, Matthew. 'Disraeli and Scott: Oriental Aristocracy and the Tory Novel', Wordsworth Circle, 43.2 (2012), 98-103.

Solinger, Jason D. 'Postscript: Old Sir Walter', in Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815 (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 145-50.

Solinger, Jason D. 'Sir Walter Scott and the Gentrification of Empire', in Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815 (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 111-40.

Takanashi, Kyoko. 'Circulation, Monuments, and the Politics of Transmission in Sir Walter Scott’s The Tales of My Landlord', ELH, 79 (2012), 289-314.

Argues that the frame narratives of Old Mortality and The Heart of Mid-Lothian provide insight into Scott's politics of transmission as he explores how local historical narratives might be recovered from obscurity and put into national circulation without losing their authenticity within a rapidly expanding print market. This exploration results in a series of renegotiations--between spatial and temporal transmission, between reproductions and originals, between the local and the national--that help to articulate a modern conception of literary value that lays the groundwork for institutionalizing the English novel.

Tessone, Natasha. 'Entailing the Nation: Inheritance and History in Walter Scott's The Antiquary', Studies in Romanticism, 51 (2012), 149-77.

Thompson, Ian. 'Jules Verne and the Trossachs: Experience and Inspiration', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 133-40.

Tulloch, Graham. 'Hogg and Scott in Early Australian Newspapers', Studies in Hogg and His World, 22 (2012), 39-59.

Valladares, Susan. 'Walter Scott's Vision of Don Roderick (1811): A "Drum and Trumpet Performance"?', Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 18 (2012) <http://revistas.uca.es/index.php/cir/article/viewFile/1785/1641> [accessed 10 September 2013]

Argues that Scott was not, as is often maintained, dismissive of The Vision of Don Roderick. The article first considers the contentiousness of religious and historical themes then associated with Spain through a reading of Robert Southey’s Don Roderick; Last of the Goths (1814). It moves on to consider the national tensions (and specifically Scottish) concerns underlying The Vision’s narrative. It offers a discussion of Scott’s representation of the Highlanders, his interest in the essential plurality of the Iberian Peninsula, his dismissal of Sir John Moore, and opposition to the Catholic movement in Britain.

Wallace, Tara Ghoshal. 'Monarchy and the Middle-Period Novels', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 106-17.

Watson, Nicola J. 'Afterlives', in The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 143-55.

Watson, Nicola J. 'Holiday Excursions to Scott Country', in Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland, ed. Benjamin Colbert (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 132-46.

Watson, Nicola J. 'Holiday Romances, or, Loch Katrine and the Literary Tourist', in Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012), pp. 56-69.

Westover, Paul. 'Illustration, Historicism, and Travel: The Legacy of Sir Walter Scott', in Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860 (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 142-73.

Zarandona Fernández, Juan Miguel. 'Santiago de Chile años 50 y las traducciones adaptadas de clásicos (neo)medievales ingleses de la "Biblioteca Juvenil" de la Editorial Zig-Zag: Thomas Malory (Rey Arturo) y Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)', in Aspectos de la historia de la traducción en Hispanoamérica: autores, traducciones y traductores (Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo, 2012), pp. 333-40.

Spanish-language article on Chilean juvenile adaptations of Scott's Ivanhoe.

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