The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in EuropeMurray Pittock Bloomsbury Academic, 2006 - 396 pages Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) had an immense impact throughout Europe. His historical fiction, which brought the ideas of Enlightenment to bear on the novel,created for the first time a sense of the past as a place where people thought, felt and dressed differently. His writing influenced Balzac, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dumas, Pushkin and many others; and Scott's interpretation of history was seized on by Romantic nationalists, particularly in Eastern Europe. This book gives for the first time a comprehensive account of the impact of Scott in Europe, from the early and highly influential translations of Defauconpret in France to the continued politicization and censorship of the novels in modern East Germany and Franco's Spain. Generic chapters examine Scott's presence in art and opera, two cultural forms which were deeply affected by his novels. This exciting collection of essays by an international team of leading scholars demonstrates the depth of Scott's impact on European translation, fiction and culture from 1814 to the present. It will be an indispensable research resource for Romanticists everywhere |
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... ideas [ ... ] contribute to the activity which constitutes social well - being , to industry ' . " The example he puts forward , Benjamin Franklin ( the self - made man ) , is understandable , but what about Walter Scott ? He has ...
... ideas [ ... ] contribute to the activity which constitutes social well - being , to industry ' . " The example he puts forward , Benjamin Franklin ( the self - made man ) , is understandable , but what about Walter Scott ? He has ...
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... ideas that were believed to support oppos- itional spirit . In these circumstances the interpretation of history was an important political issue . From the government's point of view , the evil of ' revolutionary ' democratic ideas ...
... ideas that were believed to support oppos- itional spirit . In these circumstances the interpretation of history was an important political issue . From the government's point of view , the evil of ' revolutionary ' democratic ideas ...
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... ideas ' ( Ideenar- muth ) , which is a typical offspring of the German preference for artists ' novels ( Kunstromane ) in the vein of Wilhelm Meister . According to Alexis the novel must be based on true pictures of life and not on ideas ...
... ideas ' ( Ideenar- muth ) , which is a typical offspring of the German preference for artists ' novels ( Kunstromane ) in the vein of Wilhelm Meister . According to Alexis the novel must be based on true pictures of life and not on ideas ...
Contents
Series Editors Preface | ix |
Abbreviations | xxii |
Scott and the European Nationalities Question | 1 |
Copyright | |
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