Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory

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    • About Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory

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    Alison Lumsden

    Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory builds on this renewed appreciation of Scott's importance by viewing his most significant novels - from Waverley and Rob. “In this lively and engaging book, Gottlieb makes the case for Scott's aptness for an exploration of literary and cultural theory by drawing on the recent revival of.

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    Walter Scott and the Limits of Language

    Project MUSE Mission Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Contact Contact Us Help. Scott always chose as his principal figures such as may, through character and fortune, enter into human contact with both camps.

    Yet the role of the Jews in Ivanhoe is more complicated. Rebecca too evokes admiration for her strength of character under duress and her eloquent descriptions of the pain of exile.

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    The story of Ivanhoe, then, is in general the story of how races become ethnicities, which then become simply intermingled family lineages and customs. Further, she becomes not just a vision of the strengths of Jewish character though she is certainly that , but of the strengths of the Saxon race that allowed it to endure its own form of exile.

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    Let us turn now to the U. The relevance of Scott for understanding the post-Reconstruction New South has not received sustained attention.

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    Dixon was so influential not because of his subtlety but because of his audiciousness: Dixon adapted Ivanhoe to show how the white North and the white South could finally be reconciled. The invading Normans are the arrogant Northerners, the Southerners the stalwart Saxons, the dangerous but necessary Jews become the blacks; the plot revolves around heroes in eclipse, threatened rapes, set-piece battles, epic debates and historical summaries, unjust trials, villains whose lusts are compulsively detailed, and medieval trappings and combat trials which signify not nostalgia so much as an aggressive and revisionary modernism that sheathes itself under the guise of rediscovering lost values.

    Written in the midst raging debates for and against the recent U. Walter Benn Michaels makes a significant error when he argues in Our America that Dixon was an anti-imperialist because he abhorred race mixture.

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    He joins his voice in the cheers of triumph which are ushering in this all-conquering Saxon. Our old men dreamed of local supremacy. We dream of the conquest of the globe.

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    Threads of steel have knit state to state. These mills unite Northern capital and Southern labor while also, for Dixon, finding the proper middle economic way between premodern agrarianism and the evils of unregulated, wage-slavery capitalism.