The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe

Title mention in the New Humanist, 2007

Title mention in the New Humanist, 2007 "...Specialists in the history of the novel or 19th-century fiction will want this book. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers." - M. E. Burnstein, CHOICE, April 2008, Vol. 45, No. -- M.E. Burnstein Of the series:"...anyone who has read the Reception volumes will be aware of the rigorous interrogation of issues of nationality, Europeanism and literary cosmopolitanism that have added in such valuable ways to our understanding of a range of British writers within a wider international context." - Byron Journal "...a fascinating and compelling book...a fine volume. Scott scholars, readers interested in reception studies, the history of the book or literature in translation should find it compulsive reading." - Byron Journal "A valuable resource for Scott scholars - and for students of European culture in the last two centries" - Translation and Literature 'The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, edited by Murray Pittock, is a collection of essays by able people. One of them, Paul Barnaby, has provided a "timeline of the European reception" of Scott's works, based on the dates of early translations. The Germans were first to take him up, in 1810, with poems from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, followed by Lady of the Lake five years later. In the meantime, there was poetry in Portuguese and French, but once Scott began to write fiction the translations came rapidly...'- Times Literary Supplement, August 2007 Times Literary Supplement