Sir Walter Scott
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Biography
Characteristics of
his work
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Ivanhoe
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Biography
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Sir Walter Scott (1771 ～ 1832) was
born of a lawyer's family in Edinburgh,
Scotland on August 15, 1771.
His interest in the old Border tales
and ballads was started by his
grandmother who was quite good at
telling stories about the old border
feuds, and was further stimulated by
Thomas Percy's (1729 ～ 1811)
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
(1765) and by the study of the old
romantic poetry of France and Italy
and of the modern German poets.
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Biography
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In 1802 ～ 1803, he published
The Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border in three volumes .
in 1805 appeared his first
considerable original work, the
romantic poem The Lay of the
Last Minstrel, which was
enthusiastically received by the
public.
Sir Walter Scott died in 1832,
which was greatly hastened by
his hard work of writing more
novels to clear off his debt.
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Characteristics of his work
1.historical novels
2.the founder and great master of the historical novel
3. based on the history of Scotland, mainly including
Waverley (1814)
Guy Mannering (1815)
Old Mortality (1816)
Rob Roy (1817)
The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
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Characteristics of his work
on English history
Ivanhoe (1819)
The Monastery (1820)
The Abbot (1820)
Kenilworth (1821)
The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
Woodstock (1826)
Peveril of the Peak (1823)
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Characteristics of his work
on the history of France and other countries
on the European Continent
Queutin Durward (1823)
St. Ronan's Well (1823)
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Characteristics of his work
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the tribal mode of life preserved in the highlands,
the practices of feudal society on the country
estates of large landowners, and the early ways
of capitalism in the big cities
The fate of the individuals are closely
interwoven with historical events
He combines historical facts with romantic
imagination.
Scott's literary career marks the transition from
Romanticism to Realism in English literature of
the 19th century.
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Ivanhoe
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a purely English subject
The central conflict is the
struggle of the Anglo-Saxon
peasantry against their
oppressors the Norman lords.
A minor conflict is the
struggle between Richard I
and his brother Prince John.
vivid descriptions of various
strata of people
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