Barnaby Rudge as A Historical Novel and Sir Walter Scott's influence by Alev Baysal

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Sir Walter Scott and European Literature: The Example of Cervantes and the Cervantean Tradition by Alfredo MORO MARTÍN

“…<p>The present article tries to examine the weight of the British and European Cervantean tradition in the early novels of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Through the analysis of the recognizable presence of Cervantean elements characteristic of Cervantes’s eighteenth-century emulators in novels such as <em>Waverley </em>(1814), <em>Guy Mannering </em>(1815) and <em>The Antiquary</em> (1816), this article will try to demonstrate how Scott’s early novel-writing possesses a clear transnational and European flavor, despite its evident local tone. …”
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SIR WALTER SCOTT’S THE ANTIQUARY: CULTURES, HISTORY, ART AND NARRATIVE ALLIANCES

“…One of the least known to Russian readers novels of Sir Walter Scott is under analysis. Russian critical thought of Scott does not speak of the novel as it should since The Antiquary (1816) is the novel which demonstrates the movement of the writer’s artistic method towards more complex and realistic depiction of characters and circumstances. …”
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Of Chora and the Taming of the Political Uncanny: Sir Walter Scott’s The Highland Widow as a Nationalizing Tale by Zahra A Hussein Ali

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Classical reception in Sir Walter Scott's Scottish novels. The role of Greece and Rome in the making of historic-national fiction by D'Andrea, P

“…<p>This work explores Sir Walter Scott’s engagement with the classical past as it emerges, in a selection of his so-called Scottish novels, in the form of creative responses to stories and figures from the realms of literature, myth and history of Greece and Rome.…”

Manifestation of 18th century literary movement through Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe: History has been rewritten by Rudra Tapash

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“Hospitality to the Exile and Broken Bones to the Tyrant”: Early Modernity in Walter Scott’s Waverley by Gül Sinan

“…Published anonymously in 1814, Waverley; Or ‘Tis Sixty Years Hence is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott which unfolds the story of a young English soldier, Edward Waverley, and his journey to Scotland. …”
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New light on Dryden’s conversion (Invited Commentary) by Gardiner, Anne Barbeau

“…These unjust attacks on Dryden’s character made Sir Walter Scott call him a “confessor” if not a “martyr” of the Catholic faith.…”
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Emigration Gothic: A Scotswoman’s Contribution to the New World by Michelle Gadpaille

“…Drawing on earlier traditions of European Gothic, including Sir Walter Scott’s mythologized Scottish landscape, and on an emerging North American genre of convent exposes, Ross’s writing accommodates female protest, distances it from reality and allows its dissipation in conventional denouements. …”
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From Albion's shore: Lord Byron' poetry in Slovene translations until 1945 by Igor Maver

“…In England, of course, the crucial years are1789, when Lyrical Ballads were published by Wordsworth and Coleridge, and the year 1832, which marks the death of Sir Walter Scott.…”
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Unacknowledged Intellect: Scott’s Changing Reputation and an Alternative Victorian Critical Mode by Andrea Coldwell

“…Despite a critical tendency, common until recently, to minimize Sir Walter Scott’s impact as an intellectual, two late-Victorian reviewers, Julia Wedgwood and John Stuart Stuart-Glennie, do present Scott as a theorist and a contributor to the intellectual movements of his period. …”
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Le Roman Historique contemporain face à « la scotticité ». by Soundous Chouar

“…Cet article propose de voir l’étendue et l’influence de ce précurseur dans le roman historique contemporain à travers la recherche des critères de la scotticité dans Alger ville blanche de Régine Deforges, l’étude s’appuie sur les analyses de Louis Maigron dans essai sur l’influence de Sir Walter Scott et George Lukacs dans Le Roman Historique, elle détermine aussi le statut de l’Histoire dans la littérature.…”
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All Writers Are Border Walkers: Emma Donoghue Between History and Fiction in Astray and The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Milda Danytė

“… Historical fiction has gained a degree of popularity among readers in the last two decades it has not enjoyed since the fashion for writing novels about national history was set by Sir Walter Scott in the early 19th century. Later in that same century, however, the value of historical fiction as such was challenged by historians who were eager to make history a science; they claimed that academic historical writing provided an objective view of the past based on archival research and was therefore fundamentally superior to historical novels. …”
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All Writers Are Border Walkers: Emma Donoghue Between History and Fiction in Astray and the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Milda Danyte

“…Historical fiction has gained a degree of popularity among readers in the last two decades it has not enjoyed since the fashion for writing novels about national history was set by Sir Walter Scott in the early 19th century. Later in that same century, however, the value of historical fiction as such was challenged by historians who were eager to make history a science, they claimed that academic historical writing provided an objective view of the past based on archival research and was therefore fundamentally superior to historical novels. …”
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Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive… by M. Wise

“…‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive’. Marmion, Sir Walter Scott 1808. Conflict is unpleasant, it is aversive, we tend to avoid it. …”
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Early Russian Reception of James Hogg (1830s) by D. N. Zhatkin, A. A. Ryabova

“…Scott in Abbotsford “The Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott” (1834), as well as a fragment from the book “Noctes Ambrosianae” (1802—1835), attributed to Hogg, but in reality a collective work of J. …”
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La bio y geopolítica de las habitaciones by Michael J. Shapiro, Diego Sebastián Crescentino

“…En los análisis de la relación entre literatura y geopolítica he recurrido en más de una ocasión a un capítulo del Atlas de la novela europea de Franco Moretti en el que contrasta las geografías literarias de las novelas sentimentales ("Silver Fork") de Jane Austen con las novelas históricas de Sir Walter Scott. Moretti señala que Austen, cuyas novelas se centran en un mercado matrimonial clasista, limita su geografía a "una pequeña Inglaterra homogénea" (Moretti, 1998, p. 14). …”
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The fifth monarchy men by Capp, B, Capp, Bernard

“…After brief literary glory as the subjects of Abraham Cowley's play <em>Cutter of Coleman Street</em> (1663), they languished in obscurity until revivified by Sir Walter Scott in 1822 in hia novel <em>Peveril of the Peak</em>. …”