Sir Walter Scott

15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832

Standard Name: Scott, Sir Walter

Birth Name: Walter Scott

Titled: Sir Walter Scott

Nickname: The Great Unknown

Used Form: author of Kenilworth

The remarkable career of Walter Scott began with a period as a Romantic poet (the leading Romantic poet in terms of popularity) before he went on to achieve even greater popularity as a novelist, particularly for his historical fiction and Scottish national tales. His well-earned fame in both these genres of fiction has tended to create the impression that he originated them, whereas in fact women novelists had preceded him in each.

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Intertextuality and Influence	Charlotte Smith	Again the Analytical reviewer may have been Wollstonecraft , and if so she was better pleased than before: another novel, written with her usual flow of language and happy discrimination of manners. . ....
Intertextuality and Influence	Jane Loudon	In prose the opening tale, Julia de Clifford, presents a well-meaning but thoughtless and impulsive heroine who progresses from dressing up as a ghost to scare the servants, to plunging her lover into despair...
Intertextuality and Influence	Ruby M. Ayres	Like her later novels, Richard Chatterton, V.C. is a courtship novel ending happily in marriage. Published only a year into the First World War, it is also an examination, albeit a shallow one, of...
Intertextuality and Influence	Emily Brontë	EB 's composition of her sole surviving novel, Wuthering Heights, flowed directly from her Gondal writings and shows much greater continuity with them than her sisters' fiction does. Like theirs, the novel reveals the...
Intertextuality and Influence	Jane Loudon	This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan , Byron , and especially Scott
Intertextuality and Influence	Louisa Anne Meredith	Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...
Intertextuality and Influence	Amelia Opie	Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...
Intertextuality and Influence	George Eliot	As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer ...
Intertextuality and Influence	Sarah Harriet Burney	Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB 's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families. Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997. lviii-lix This Burney was a discerning reader of recent and contemporary fiction, admiring Maria Edgeworth and James Fenimore Cooper
Intertextuality and Influence	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville
Intertextuality and Influence	Harriett Jay	But then Guy goes to sleep in his study (known as the Knights' room), and finds himself sent back seven hundred years to 1196. Here he is woefully out of place, still being clad in...
Intertextuality and Influence	George Eliot	Those aspects of the book which readers insisted on seeing separately as the Jewish element, as she herself called them, were the hardest for GE to write. She sought to naturalize the scholarly, Judaic...
Intertextuality and Influence	Henrietta Camilla Jenkin	The book opens with Stella's unhappy childhood, living an isolated, transient life in Continental Europe with her grandmother, Mrs Jodrell, who has fallen out with both her children, and whom Stella has to tend on...
Intertextuality and Influence	Sophia Lee	The Recess was highly influential: in its basic technique of inserting fictive persons among actual historical ones, in its polarization of Elizabeth and Mary , and in its heavily sentimental tone. Writers directly influenced by...
Intertextuality and Influence	Catherine Maria Grey	The Duke makes its moral point with a quotation from Sir Walter Scott on the title-page: Oh woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please . . . . When...

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