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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... means of his adop- tion into the debate over the national self , and what constituted it . The tax- onomy of glory , the identification of the antiquity of one's own society and culture with their nature , levels of operation and right ...
... means of his adop- tion into the debate over the national self , and what constituted it . The tax- onomy of glory , the identification of the antiquity of one's own society and culture with their nature , levels of operation and right ...
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... means of an untranslatable game of words the vast difference between him and his model : Everyone says : he's a Walter Scott But I am a poet , not a hypocrite . He is simply a swine , agreed . But a Walter Scott he is not.2 29 One of ...
... means of an untranslatable game of words the vast difference between him and his model : Everyone says : he's a Walter Scott But I am a poet , not a hypocrite . He is simply a swine , agreed . But a Walter Scott he is not.2 29 One of ...
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... means a man of leftist leanings , Solovev was opposed to violent changes of any kind and depicted the horrors of the French Revolution with- out the slightest sympathy for the frenzy of the masses or the demagogues who exploited this ...
... means a man of leftist leanings , Solovev was opposed to violent changes of any kind and depicted the horrors of the French Revolution with- out the slightest sympathy for the frenzy of the masses or the demagogues who exploited this ...
Contents
Series Editors Preface | ix |
Abbreviations | xxii |
Scott and the European Nationalities Question | 1 |
Copyright | |
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