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Walter Scott, The Two Sicilies, And Events ‘Of Recent Date’, Graham Tulloch
Walter Scott, The Two Sicilies, And Events ‘Of Recent Date’, Graham Tulloch
Studies in Scottish Literature
Traces Walter Scott's interest in Sicily and Naples through his earlier writing up to his travels to both in 1831-1832, discusses his treatment of Neapolitan history and politics in essays in 1816 and 1829, especially his accounts of Joachim Murat (1767-1815), king of Naples from 1808-1815, and in Masaniello, leader of the popular rising in 1647-48, and suggests how these interests connect to Scott's unfinished short novel Bizarro, written in 1832 but first published in 2008, so unavailable to earlier Scott scholars.
Walter Scott At 250, Alison Lumsden, Kirsty Archer-Thompson
Walter Scott At 250, Alison Lumsden, Kirsty Archer-Thompson
Studies in Scottish Literature
This essay marking the 250th anniversary of Walter Scott's birth reflects on the current state of Scott studies, the scholarly directions in which it might develop, and ways in which the relevance of Scott’s work may be re-discovered and re-invigorated for contemporary audiences. In particular, it examines scholarly and critical attitudes to Scott's work over the past 50 years through papers given at the triennial international Scott conferences initiated in Edinburgh in 1971, alongside developments in public engagement at Abbotsford House and elsewhere during the 250th anniversary year.
Scott's Last Words, Peter Garside
Scott's Last Words, Peter Garside
Studies in Scottish Literature
Walter Scott’s dying words as recounted by J. G. Lockhart, widely accepted by in the Victorian period, have since been seen as largely fabricated. In 1938, H. J. C. Grierson blamed Lockahart’s “pious myth” on a “lady relative” of Scott’s anxious to deflect future detractors who might vilify Scott as irreligious. The concerened lady, unnamed by Grierson, was Mrs Harriet Scott of Harden, one of Scott’s first confidants, early adviser on literary matters, and later nearby neighbour at Mertoun House. Her positive influence on Scott, still underestimated, is hardly that of the “evangelical lady” featured regularly in post-Grierson Scott biographies. …
'A Quivering Quick-Sand': Romantic Border Aesthetics, David Stewart
'A Quivering Quick-Sand': Romantic Border Aesthetics, David Stewart
Studies in Scottish Literature
Examines Romantic and later treatments of the Solway's distinctive quicksands and bore-tides, from Anne Radcliffe and Allan Cunningham to Edwin Morgan, with special focus on Walter Scott's Solway novels, Redgauntlet and Guy Mannering.
Border Police: Scott’S Minstrelsy Of The Scottish Border, The Law, And The 1790s, Penny Fielding
Border Police: Scott’S Minstrelsy Of The Scottish Border, The Law, And The 1790s, Penny Fielding
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802 etc) in the context of Border history, Scottish legal philosophy, the jurisdictional and cultural concept of the "Debateable Lands," and the Scottish political situation during the political trials and the Militia Act riots in the 1790s. .
‘A’ That’S Past Forget – Forgie’: National Drama And The Construction Of Scottish National Identity On The Nineteenth-Century Stage, Paula Sledzinska
‘A’ That’S Past Forget – Forgie’: National Drama And The Construction Of Scottish National Identity On The Nineteenth-Century Stage, Paula Sledzinska
Studies in Scottish Literature
Focused on dramatic adaptations of Walter Scott’s Rob Roy and Waverley for the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, by Isaac Pocock and John W. Calcraft, this essay explores "how the conflicted Lowland and Highland traditions became incorporated into the new image of the nation," offering "a theatrical reflection of the dynamic process of identity building in the nineteenth-century Scotland."
Authority And The Narrative Voice In Stevenson's Weir Of Hermiston, Gillian Hughes
Authority And The Narrative Voice In Stevenson's Weir Of Hermiston, Gillian Hughes
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses and analyzes Robert Louis Stevenson's use of the narrator's voice in his short, unfinished novel Weir of Hermiston, comparing his narrative strategies with those of Walter Scott, George Moore, George Douglas Brown, D.H. Lawrence, and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, concluding that "Stevenson’s fictions are experimental works," that "respond ingeniously to the dominant and quasi-official formulae and assumptions of writers of classic Victorian novels, and in turn establish an important model from which subsequent British novelists ... could learn."
Authorial Disguise And Intertextuality: Scott’S The Lay Of The Last Minstrel, Coleridge, And Keats, Beth Lau
Authorial Disguise And Intertextuality: Scott’S The Lay Of The Last Minstrel, Coleridge, And Keats, Beth Lau
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses Walter Scott's first published poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), exploring the relation between Scott's use of disguise and distancing devices with his use of anonymity in his fiction, and explores the intertextual relationships between his poem and other poems of the romantic era.
Books Received, John T. Knox, Patrick G. Scott
Books Received, John T. Knox, Patrick G. Scott
Studies in Scottish Literature
Publication details and short descriptions of over thirty recently-published books in Scottish literature and related fields.
The Ssl Symposium On Editing: A Commentary, Ian Duncan
The Ssl Symposium On Editing: A Commentary, Ian Duncan
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reviews and comments on the preceding essays in the SSL Symposium on Editing Scottish Literary Texts, setting them in the wider context of critical discussion, responding to some of the earlier comments comparing the recent collected editions of Walter Scott and James Hogg, and arguing that the "authentically democratic" work of making a fuller range of Scottish literary texts available moves critical discussion forward from the "tedious zero-sum game" of debating a static canon.
Sir Walter Scott And John Clare: An Unpublished Letter, Ian D. Kane
Sir Walter Scott And John Clare: An Unpublished Letter, Ian D. Kane
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reports an autograph letter written by Walter Scott, now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, dated May 31, 1820, and sent to Captain Markham Shirwill, responding to Shirwill's request that Scott foster Clare's writing career; along with a transcription and illustration of the letter, the note discusses what was previously known about this incident and its context based on the letters of Clare.
Textual Messages: Scholarly Editions And Their Role In Literary Criticism, Alison Lumsden
Textual Messages: Scholarly Editions And Their Role In Literary Criticism, Alison Lumsden
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the editing of Scottish literary texts, specifically recent editions of Walter Scott and James Hogg, and argues that textual investigation is not simply technical and preliminary but an integral part of literary criticism.
Writer, Reader, And Rhetoric In John Gibson Lockhart's Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Gerald P. Mulderig
Writer, Reader, And Rhetoric In John Gibson Lockhart's Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Gerald P. Mulderig
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
"Hab Nab At A Venture": Scott On The Creative Process, David Hewitt
"Hab Nab At A Venture": Scott On The Creative Process, David Hewitt
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
"A Very Curious Emptiness": Walter Scott And The Twentieth-Century Scottish Renaissance Movement, Margery Palmer Mcculloch
"A Very Curious Emptiness": Walter Scott And The Twentieth-Century Scottish Renaissance Movement, Margery Palmer Mcculloch
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
Hogg, Byron, Scott, And John Murray Of Albemarle Street, Douglas S. Mack
Hogg, Byron, Scott, And John Murray Of Albemarle Street, Douglas S. Mack
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.