Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe

Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a prizewinner of that society and of the British Academy, as well as winning or being nominated or shortlisted for over ten other literary prizes. He is the author or editor of a number of prominent works on Jacobitism and Romanticism, including Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008, 2011), Robert Burns in Global Culture (2011) and Material Culture and Sedition: Treacherous, Objects, Secret Places (2013). He is currently editing the Scots Musical Museum in the AHRC Collected Burns edition.

Title mention in the New Humanist, 2007

• 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 Reitemeier7. 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 Mikeshin14. 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