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For many critics, defence of Scott subsumes a defence of a national culture against the attacks of
Englishness.Discuss.
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Some of Scott's finest works, like Ivanhoe, were inspired by the romance of the Middle Ages, and
were themselves a key factor in the 19h-century Romantic revival of chivalric ideals.
One of Sir Walter Scott's lesser known literary works is an article on chivalry he wrote for the
Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1818 (you can still find it there), one year before the publication of
Ivanhoe. He was regarded as an authority on the subject because of the vast store of antiquarian
knowledge he had built up from stuying the ancient ballads of Scotland.
During the Age of Enllightenment citizens strove to free themselves from superstition and
championed the cause of human reason. The ideals of chivalry seemed ridiculous. Historians of
the time began to study medieval documents with scientific curiosity. However, it was the very
distance and mystery of the Middle Ages which appealed to the Romantics.
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Scott's home, Abbotsford, reflects this love of history and initiated the style called Scots Baronial
that became all the rage in mid-19th century Scotland. Look in the following Internet Pages, The
Scottish Book Trust at www.scottishbooktrust.com/ and in Walter Scott Digital Archive at
Edinburgh University www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/. Trace the characteristics of the style known
as Scots Baronial. In what sense are these buildings Neo-Gothic? Another Neo-Gothic building is
Horace Walpole's castle, Strawberry Hill, where he wrote his Castle of Otranto, one of the first a
most famous Gothic novels. Search internet for information of Walpole and on his castle. Why do
these buildings become important symbols in Romantic narrative? Remember the Neo-Platonic
influence and the house as symbol of the body (sometimes considered a prison) dualistically
separated from the soul.
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