Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) (original) (raw)

I'd like to dedicate the Scott section of the Victorian Web to an inspiring teacher and Scott devotee, Professor Roger Bishop of the University of Victoria, for it was he that lured me into the study of the nineteenth-century novel and inspired me to read many of Scott's novels. — Philip V. Allingham

Biographical Materials

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Biographical Essay
• Works

Literary Relations

• Why Did The Victorians Love Sir Walter Scott's writings?
• Scott and the invention of the historical novel
• Sources, Influences, Confluences
• Sir Walter Scott's Edward Waverley and Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby: Passive Heroes?
• Scott and Drama (including adaptations of his work)

Theme and context

• The Commercial Motif of the Waverley Novels
• Jewish-Christian Relations in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1818)

Artistic Relations

• (Sitemap/homepage)
• Sir Walter Scott's Influence on the Gothic Revival
• Scott and Book Illustration
• Scott's Works as Subject for Painting and Sculpture
  • Walter Scott memorial, Princes Street, Edinburgh
• Scott's Influence on British Architecture — the Scottish Baronial Style
  • Henry Seaver's Belfast Scottish Temperance Building

Cultural Contexts

• Victorianism
• Nostalgic yearning for a heroic and romantic past

Bibliography and Related Web Resources

• Walter Scott Digital Archive (Edinburgh University Library)
• The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

Victorian Web

Authors Romanticism

Last modified 6 July 2020