Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
Author: Fiona RobertsonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748670203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Scott-land
Author: Stuart KellyPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857900218
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
No writer has ever been as famous as Sir Walter Scott once was; and no writer has ever enjoyed such huge acclaim followed by such absolute neglect and outright hostility. But Scotland would not be Scotland except for Scott. All the icons of Scottishness have their roots in Scott's novels, poems, public events and histories. It's a legacy both inspiring and constraining, and just one of the ironies that fuse Scott and Scotland into Scott-land. In this book Stuart Kelly reveals Scott the paradox: the celebrity unknown, the nationalist unionist, the aristocrat loved by communists, the forward-looking reactionary. Part literary study, part biography, part travelogue, part surreptitious autobiography, Scott-land unveils a complex, contradictory man and the complex contradictory country he created. Insightful, accessible, witty and melancholy, this is a 'voyage around my fatherland' like no other.
The Life of Walter Scott
Author: John SutherlandPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631203179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
John Sutherland's new critical biography is an undertaking of major importance in which he penetrates into the darker areas of Scott's life in a sceptical (yet sympathetic) spirit,
Walter Scott
Author: John O. HaydenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134782780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature
Author: Margaret BallPublisher: New York Columbia University Press 1907.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature
Author: Margaret BallPublisher: New York Columbia University Press 1907.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Rob Roy
Author: Walter ScottThe Laird of Abbotsford
Author: A. N. WilsonPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This critical biography the indifference which has surrounded Scott in this century and the distortions of his Victorian idolators to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries. By weaving together the life and works, and examining all of Scott's best-known books
The Perversity of Poetry
Author: Dino Franco FellugaPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791483975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, "Poetry makes nothing happen." In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry's marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period's two contending (and equally outrageous) claims regarding poetry. Scott's poetry, on the one hand, was continually represented as a panacea for a modern world overtaken by new principles of utilitarianism, capitalism, industrialism, and democracy. Byron's, by contrast, was represented either as a cancer in the heart of the social order or as a contagious pandemic leading to various pathological symptoms. The book concludes with a coda on Alfred Lord Tennyson, which illustrates how the Victorian reception of Scott and Byron affected the most popular poetic genius of midcentury. Ultimately, The Perversity of Poetry uncovers how the shift to a rhetoric of health allowed critics to oppose what they perceived as a potent and potentially dangerous influence on the age, the very thing that would over the course of the century be marginalized into such obscurity: poetry, thanks to its perverse insistence on making something happen.