The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) had an immense impact throughout Europe. His historical fiction, which brought the ideas of Enlightenment to bear on the novel,created for the first time a sense of the past as a place where people thought, felt and dressed differently. His writing influenced Balzac, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dumas, Pushkin and many others; and Scott's interpretation of history was seized on by Romantic nationalists, particularly in Eastern Europe. This book gives for the first time a comprehensive account of the impact of Scott in Europe, from the early and highly influential translations of Defauconpret in France to the continued politicization and censorship of the novels in modern East Germany and Franco's Spain. Generic chapters examine Scott's presence in art and opera, two cultural forms which were deeply affected by his novels. This exciting collection of essays by an international team of leading scholars demonstrates the depth of Scott's impact on European translation, fiction and culture from 1814 to the present. It will be an indispensable research resource for Romanticists everywhere

Murray Pittock FRSE is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK, and has previously held chairs and other senior appointments at the universities of Manchester, Strathclyde and Edinburgh.

Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Timeline: European Reception of Walter Scott; Paul Barnaby 
Introduction: Scott and the European Nationalities Question; Murray Pittock
1. Scott in France; Richard Maxwell
2. Scott and Defauconpret: A New  Model of Translation; Paul Barnaby
3. The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Spain; José  Enrique Garcia-González and Fernado Toda
4. Ivanhoe, a Tale of the Crusades, or, Scott in Catalonia; Andrew Monnickendam
5. The Reception of Walter Scott in Nineteenth-Century Austria; Norbert Bachleitner 
6. The Reception of Walter Scott in German Literary Histories, c1820-c1945; Frauke Reitemeier
7. The Reception of Walter Scott in East, West and Reunified Germany, (1949-2005); Annika Bautz 
8. The Hungarian Reception of Walter Scott in the Nineteenth Century; Emilia Szaffner
9. The Canonization of Walter Scott as the Inventor of the Historical Novel in Twentieth-Century Hungarian Reception; Gertrud Szamosi 
10. From Romantic Folklorism to Children's Adventure Fiction: Walter Scott in Czech Culture; Martin Procházka
11. The Polish Reception of Sir Walter Scott; Mirka Modrzewska 
12. The Rise and Fall of Walter Scott's Popularity in Russia; Mark Altshuller 
13. Walter Scott and the Idea of History in Russia; Tatiana Artemyeva with Mikael Mikeshin
14. Slovene Reception of Sir Walter Scott in the Nineteenth Century; Tone Smolej  
15. 'His pirates had foray'd on Scottish hill': The Danish Reception of Scott with an Outline of his Reception in Norway and Sweden; Jørgen Erik Nielsen  
16. European Reception of Scott's Poetry: Translation as the Front Line; Tom Hubbard 
17. Scott's 'Heyday' in Opera; Jeremy Tambling 
18. 'Seeing with the Painter's Eye': Sir Walter Scott's Challenge to Nineteenth-Century Art; Beth Wright
19. 'Scotland is Scott-Land'; Scott and the Development of Tourism;  Alastair Durie BibliographyIndex