The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe: (The Reception of British and Irish Authors 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

Table of Contents:
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 Bibliography Index

About the Author :
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.

Review :
Title mention in the New Humanist, 2007 "...Specialists in the history of the novel or 19th-century fiction will want this book.  Summing Up: Recommended.  Graduate students and researchers." -M. E. Burnstein, CHOICE, April 2008, Vol. 45, No. Of the series: "...anyone who has read the Reception volumes will be aware of the rigorous interrogation of issues of nationality, Europeanism and literary cosmopolitanism that have added in such valuable ways to our understanding of a range of British writers within a wider international context." - Byron Journal "...a fascinating and compelling book...a fine volume. Scott scholars, readers interested in reception studies, the history of the book or literature in translation should find it compulsive reading." - Byron Journal "A valuable resource for Scott scholars - and for students of European culture in the last two centries" - Translation and Literature 'The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, edited by Murray Pittock, is a collection of essays by able people. One of them, Paul Barnaby, has provided a "timeline of the European reception" of Scott's works, based on the dates of early translations. The Germans were first to take him up, in 1810, with poems from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, followed by Lady of the Lake five years later. In the meantime, there was poetry in Portuguese and French, but once Scott began to write fiction the translations came rapidly...'- Times Literary Supplement, August 2007