Walter Scott’s Romanticism A Theory of Performance

Walter Scott poses a problem in our understanding of Romanticism: as a poet, he was one of the most successful writers of the Romantic era, and he went on to stratospheric success as a novelist; yet Scott’s place as a Romanticist is alternately denied and pleaded, and in no case has it proved certai...

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Published inThe Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism p. 139
Main Author Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Edinburgh University Press 17.05.2011
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Summary:Walter Scott poses a problem in our understanding of Romanticism: as a poet, he was one of the most successful writers of the Romantic era, and he went on to stratospheric success as a novelist; yet Scott’s place as a Romanticist is alternately denied and pleaded, and in no case has it proved certain. This chapter suggests that Scott’s absence among the ‘big six’ of Romanticism (Blake, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth and Coleridge) derives not so much from the character or quality of his work, but from the ways in which Romanticism gradually has been constructed by critics. In fact,
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