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Sir Walter Scott and the Highlands
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The Religious and Moral Philosophy of Sir Walter Scott
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… and Historical Time: Genre and Historicity after Walter Scott,"" examines how Victorian writers experimented with literary form to create narrative temporalities capable of negotiating these changes. Georg Lukács famously associated literature's historicity with the realist novel’s ability to …
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Reading the Transatlantic Gothic Fiction of Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe
… Reading the Transatlantic Gothic Fiction of Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe looks to provide more detail about publishing histories, peritexts such as epigraphs and footnotes, the grotesque as a literary aesthetic, and the politics that surround these issues. Each chapter engages with …
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Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 1832 to 1900
This thesis examines the phenomenon of Sir Walter Scott's extraordinary Victorian popularity. Focussing on criticism of his Waverley Novels between 1832 - the year of his death - and the end of the century, the thesis plots the development and terms of Scott's eminence. An introductory chapter sets …
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From Walter Scott to Cormac McCarthy : Scottish Romanticism and the novel from the American South
… for the previously underemphasized influence of Scottish Romantic-era writing on the novel from the US South, demonstrating the formative impact of writers such as Walter Scott and James Hogg on the development of Southern writing, but also the ways in which Southern writers critique and revise …
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Early Nineteenth-Century British Song Settings of Poems From the Romances of Sir Walter Scott
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, young women of a certain station were expected to display their musical talents during evenings at home and in the homes of friends. While their repertoire was certainly varied, there is extant an enormous number of songs apparently popular …
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“All the Land Thrown Open:” Southern Culture and Southern Baptist Chaplains: 1861-1865
… God’s aid. Southern honor, largely shaped by Sir Walter Scott, spirited chivalrous attitudes towards women, pugilism, and one’s rank in his community. Slaveholder theology saw their position as one mandated by the Scripture for the betterment of both whites and blacks. Through the propagation of …
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Blood ties : and 'Kings. what a good idea' : monarchy in epic fantasy fiction
… saga and the historical romances of Sir Walter Scott. More profoundly, the meaning of the king’s role has been influenced by the Christian mythos in two ways: the king is a Christ surrogate who sacrifices his own safety for the good of the body politic and, in being successful against …
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Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism
… economy of literary piracy affected Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron's publication strategies, the significance of foreign reprints to copyright ideology and canon formation, and the relationship between unauthorized publication and the culture of appropriation apparent in radical …
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Ιστορία, Βίωμα και Λογοτεχνία: Διασταυρώσεις και Πραγματώσεις.
… με αναφορά σε σημαντικούς μελετητές, όπως ο Walter Scott και ο Hayden White, οι οποίοι συνέβαλαν καθοριστικά στη διαμόρφωση και ανάλυση του είδους. Παράλληλα, αναλύονται τέσσερα Ελληνικά Ιστορικά μυθιστορήματα: Τα μυστικά του βάλτου της Πηνελόπης Δέλτα, Η Νενέ η Σμυρνιά της Έλσας Χίου, Όταν ο …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… d’Aulnoy, Horace Walpole, Ann Yearsley, and Walter Scott alongside works of traditional historical and political discourse, this dissertation argues that that historical romance maintained a continuously evolving literary presence in eighteenth-century Britain. During this period, the …
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The Royal Burgh of Peebles in the nineteenth century : the impact of a locally-organised railway on a moribund Scottish county town
Peebles, a small burgh in the Scottish Borders, was stagnant at the start of the 1800s, having remained virtually unchanged for 200 years. It was by-passed during the 1840s railway boom, the North British Railway (NBR) having decided that building a railway from Edinburgh to Peebles would be too …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… relates historical apparitions in novels by Walter Scott, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde to contemporaneous print media, including illustration, print series, and photography. Against the backdrop of modernizing shifts in popular visual culture, these novelists depict the past …
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Social Memory and Nineteenth-Century British Historical Fiction
… and canonical historical novels by Sir Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, and Philip Meadows Taylor.
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
… the context of British Romanticism, the Gothic, Scottish nationalism, and the ballad tradition. Close-readings of the poems examine the ways in which Bannerman’s female narrators challenge early nineteenth-century conceptualizations of gender, particularly in regard to her depictions of vengeful …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… within which to understand the emergence of Scott’s national historical novel in 1814, and the broader field of historical fiction in the era of Waterloo. Tracing the continued engagement with revolutionary and political concerns evident in the early Waverley novels, Frances Burney’s The …
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The invention of Scottish literature during the long eighteenth century
"The invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century" examines the limited place in the canon traditionally allowed to creative writing in Scotland during this period and the overarching reading of creative impediment applied to it in the light of Scotland's fraught and not …
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Close encounters: Anna Seward, 1742–1809, a woman in provincial cultural life
… as a poet and commentator, through the agency of Walter Scott, but after her death, his savage editing of her letters and works did much to destroy her reputation. Though Seward was a literary figure orbiting within an environment which excluded London, her life was important. It revealed how …
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