... it was recovered, published in book form, and lauded as an original and meritorious text. One year later, a front-page article in the weekly Le nationaliste (Montreal, 1904–24) revealed that Le manoir mystérieux was a plagiarism of Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Since then, few literary historians have...

...Deidre Lynch Abstract Novel studies and book history alike emphasize the significance of Walter Scott's creation of his Magnum Opus edition (1829–33): a repossession, on behalf of a newly individuated author and between the covers of a uniformly manufactured edition, of publications that had...

...Srdjan Smajić This essay argues that the relationship between realism and supernaturalism in realist novels is more complicated—and more symbiotic—than critics generally acknowledge. Taking Walter Scott's Waverley , George Eliot's Silas Marner , and Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre as representative...

..., the form that had mastered the containment of violence was the historical novel, and Macdermots is clearly attempting to come to terms with the inheritance of Sir Walter Scott. It is equally preoccupied with the tradition of the Irish national tale, in particular with the models of national restoration...

...Enrique Lima The historical novels of Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, and countless others have been interested primarily in exploiting the dramatic potential of historical events and the significant real and fictional personalities that took part in them. These writers are concerned...

...Michael Gamer Rigney Ann , The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move . ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2012 ), pp. xvii + 328 , cloth £55.00 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Scott’s Afterlives: Life after Scott ann rigney...

...Bill Solomon This essay adopts Susan Stewart's notion of distressed genres as a way to interrogate the seemingly nostalgic strain of American modernist fiction produced in the early decades of the twentieth century. The first section reads Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio alongside Walter...

... and Punishment in Scott’s Novels . London: Georgia UP, 1992 . Benjamin , Walter . “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Illuminations . Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. London: Cape, 1970 . 255 –66. Bolton , H. Philip . Scott Dramatised . London: Mansell, 1992 . Calvino...

.... Becket, 1803 . Miles , Robert . “What Is a Romantic Novel?” Novel: a Forum on Fiction 34.2 (Spring 2001 ): 180 –98. Porter , Roy . Britain and the Creation of the Modern World . London: Allen Lane, 2000 . Scott , Walter . Essay on Romance. The Prose Works of Sir Walter...

.... If, as Jed Esty has recently argued, “contemporary historical fictions . . . are the realisms of our moment” ( 337 ), that makes it all the more imperative to examine how the genre at its inception develops its distinctive capability: the fictive representation of history. In placing Walter Scott...

...David Simpson Ian Duncan , Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2019 ), pp. xiii + 304, cloth, $35.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 In Human Forms , the most extensively discussed among Walter Scott's novels is Count Robert...

... empathy for the plight of the privileged. The conservative authors she examines—Tobias Smollett, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and the writers of proslavery novels—oppose the “progressive cultural headwinds” (2) that have come to be understood as central to the novel's depiction of the rise...

...:3  DOI 10.1215/00295132-2009-029  © 2009 by Novel, Inc. esty | global lukács 367 tion (Historical Novel 85, 174). Whereas the great realists Johann von Goethe, Walter Scott, Honoré de Balzac, and Leo Tolstoy managed to produce central...

...Nancy Armstrong © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Works Cited Scott , Sir Walter . “Emma: A Novel.” On Novelists and Fiction . Ed. Williams Ioan. New York: Barnes...

... York : Penguin , 1998 . Hayden John O. Walter Scott: The Critical Heritage . London : Routledge , 1995 . Huyssen Andreas . After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1986 . Jacobson Marcia Ann . Henry James...

..., 1754 . Eighteenth-Century Fiction Full-Text Database. Chadwyck-Healey, 1996. < http://collections.chadwyck.com >. Schor , Naomi . Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine . New York: Methuen, 1987 . Scott , Walter . Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction . Ed. Ioan...

.... By 1820 we reach a cross-over point, where male-authored novels exceed female-authored ones. There then follows a "rernasculinisation" of the novel, a process boosted by the example and marketing practices of Sir Walter Scott (Garside 2.74-75). If the teens belonged to women writers...

... to Aaron Hill. 1741. Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson . Ed. John Carroll. Oxford: Clarendon, 1964 . Scott , Walter . “Miss Austen’s Novels.” The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott . Vol. 18 . 209 –49. Literature Online. < http://lion.chadwyck.com > 8 May 2004...

...: Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 416, cloth, $39.50. Scott’s Shadow offers an unrivaled account of the Edinburgh literary scene between 1802 and 1832, when the cultural sway of Scotland’s literary reviews and Walter Scott’s his- torical novels made Edinburgh an enormously influential center for both...

... Austen's work into surprising proximity with the historical fiction of Walter Scott and the urban mapping of James Joyce. Happily disappointing those readers who might expect to find a conventional biographical approach, this book does a salutary job of pushing against the “inclination to interpret...