The Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott: A Comparative Longitudinal StudyBloomsbury Academic, 2007 M08 9 - 208 pages Of all the great novelists of the Romantic period, only two, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, have been continuously reprinted, admired, argued about, and read, from the moment their works first appeared until the present day. In a pioneering study, Annika Bautz traces how Scott's nineteenth-century success among all classes of readers made him the most admired and most widely read novelist in history, only for his readership to plummet sharply downwards in the twentieth century. Austen's popularity, by contrast, has risen inexorably, overtaking Scott's, and bringing about a reversal in reputation that would have been unthinkable in the authors' own time. |
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... Sir Walter Scott , perhaps ' ( Ind , 2 Dec. 1991 ) . Even the known events of his life are seen as typically Scottish : one of the charms of the Scottish character is that ... almost anything they attempt as a concerted national effort ...
... Sir Walter Scott ' , The Academy ( 10 Aug. 1878 ) , 136 . Anon . , ' The Reflection of English Character in English Art ' , The Quarterly Review , 147 ( 1879 ) , 81–112 . Coleridge , H. J. , ' Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott ...
... Sir Walter Scott , Bart . , 7 vols ( Edinburgh : Robert Cadell ; London : John Murray and Whittaker , 1837 ) . The London Catalogue of Books Published in London ( London : Robert Bent , 1831 ) . The London Catalogue of Books Published ...
Contents
Reviewing in the Romantic Period | 7 |
Austen and Scott Reviewed 18121818 | 15 |
Private Readers Responses in Letters and Diaries 18111818 | 49 |
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