Restoration Politics and Sentimental Poetics in A.-J.-B. Defauconpret's Translations of Sir Walter Scott

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Barnaby
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Sentimental Novel ◽  
Realist Novel ◽  
Walter Scott

This essay shows how Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret's French translations of Old Mortality and Rob Roy followed a politically conservative agenda, reconfiguring Sir Walter Scott's novels for a Legitimist, Catholic, post-Napoleonic readership. Political rewriting went hand in hand with an aesthetic project as Defauconpret refashioned Scott's protagonists to resemble the domestic heroes of the French sentimental novel, exiling them to the private sphere. Yet Defauconpret inadvertently created an influential formal hybrid which not only caused the French historical novel to diverge radically from Scott's model but played a significant role in the evolution of the French realist novel.

Sir Walter Scott and the Medievalist Novel

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
James Watt
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Charles Kingsley ◽  
English History ◽  
Black Arrow ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Norman Invasion ◽  
Charlotte Yonge ◽  
Child Readers

This chapter focuses primarily on Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819) and the novels—including Scott’s subsequent crusading fictions—that paid tribute to it through their engagement with roughly the same period of English history. In the hands of writers such as Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Charles Kingsley, the historical novel after Scott tended to present the Norman invasion as an enduringly formative moment in the making of modern imperial Britain. Popular fictions by Charlotte Yonge and G. A. Henty, composed for child readers, were similarly inspired by Scott, though in their reductive rewriting of Ivanhoe they further contributed to Scott’s ‘descent to the school-room’. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow (1883), by contrast, I will argue in conclusion, recovers the playfully reflexive scepticism of Ivanhoe and detaches the adolescence of its confused hero from any idea of an analogous national emergence.

scholarly journals Historical Psychology, Utopian Dreams and Other Fool's Errands

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-207
Author(s):  
Nick Hubble
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Walter Scott

The initial premise of Georg Lukács's The Historical Novel is well-known and can be found outlined in its opening sentence: “The historical novel arose at the beginning of the nineteenth century at about the time of Napoleon's collapse (Scott's Waverley appeared in 1814)” (15). According to Lukács, the classical historical novel inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott was distinguished from what had preceded it by the conscious employment of a historical sense, already implicitly present in the realist fiction of Smollett and Fielding, combined with an understanding that progress is driven by the conflict of social forces.

Anglo-Saxonism and the Victorian Novel

2020 ◽  
pp. 631-653
Author(s):  
Joanne Parker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Literary Origins

This chapter argues for the interest and importance of Anglo-Saxonist novels when analysing questions of identity in Victorian Britain. Focusing on the nineteenth century’s two longest works of literary Anglo-Saxonism—Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1848 historical novel Harold and Charles Kingsley’s 1866 Hereward the Wake—it reveals that, contrary to contemporary opinion, these works do not assert, but rather question and investigate, simplistic notions of national identity. Both books are often dismissed as simply poor imitations of the earlier work of Sir Walter Scott. The chapter traces their literary origins to well before Scott; argues that the texts differ importantly from Scott’s work, in ways that can tell us much about the mid-nineteenth century; and reveals how the books intersect in important ways with other manifestations of Victorian medievalism, and have also had an important legacy in the medievalism of the late twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.

scholarly journals “Hospitality to the Exile and Broken Bones to the Tyrant”: Early Modernity in Walter Scott’s Waverley

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Sinan Gül
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Broken Bones ◽  
Walter Scott

Abstract Published anonymously in 1814, Waverley; Or ‘Tis Sixty Years Hence is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott which unfolds the story of a young English soldier, Edward Waverley, and his journey to Scotland. Regarded as the first historical novel, it contains elements of modernity, heralding a new upcoming era in England. Scott obviously displays the concept of the modern/modernity differently from the perception that writers are conveying today, but he hints at the emergence of a society detached from feudal customs in several aspects through the issue of union between England and Scotland. Highlighting the modern characteristics of Walter Scott’s Waverley, this paper argues that Scott employs elements of modernity in his novel long before their disclosure in literature and politics.

scholarly journals Travels in Scottland: Poems for Walter Scott @250

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
250Th Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Welcome to the fifth collection by Wyvern Poets, in collaboration with the University of Dundee. 2021 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), father of the historical novel and, effectively, of a new kind of mass ‘time travel’. Scott’s prolific output exported an image of his homeland with global appeal, if not always scrupulous authenticity. Stuart Kelly’s 2011 biography, Scott-land, is subtitled The Man Who Invented a Nation, perhaps without too much exaggeration. Scott’s antiquarian vision transformed a turbulent past into a pre-industrial landscape for the Romantic imagination, virtually overwhelming its place of origin or at least melding with it, as he rapidly became one the best-selling authors on earth. John Davidson’s ‘The Salvation of Nature’ (1891), fantasised a future Scotland bought out by an entertainment conglomerate. The World’s Pleasance Company, Ltd. demolishes anything built after 1700, ‘rewilding’ Scotland into a kind of neo-medieval theme park re-staging the past for tourists. Davidson’s story was both satirical exaggeration and backhanded tribute to Scott’s work for bringing history to life in a certain form. Hence this collection considers the many ways in which Scott’s evocative, but also problematic reimagining of his homeland remains relevant to our time and beyond.

Ancestral Piles

2018 ◽  
pp. 519-541
Author(s):  
Sean Moreland
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
Walter Scott

This essay examines Poe’s conception and use of the Gothic via his engagements with the work of earlier writers from Horace Walpole through Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Poe’s uses of the Gothic, and his relationship with the work of these writers, was informed by his philosophical materialism and framed by his dialogue with the writings of Sir Walter Scott. Tracing these associations reveals Poe’s transformation of the idea of “Gothic structure” from an architectural model, the ancestral pile of the eighteenth-century Gothic, to one of energetic transformation, the electric pile featured in many of Poe’s tales.

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