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• W4205215587 abstract "Introduction SUSAN OLIVER University of Essex Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fictional characters, ‘could re-experience the social and human motives which led men [and women] to think, feel and act just as they did in historical reality’.1 That argument, according to which fiction does much more than remember cultural history through telling tales, because in addition it conveys a sense of thought and feeling, should at least have ensured Scott a renewed place in Romantic studies. If Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads synthesized older (even ancient) poetry of feeling with narrative storytelling to make something bold and experimental, Scott did something similar with historical fiction in the form of the long narrative poem and in prose. All three of these first-generation Romantics believed in the power of remembering, during which the imagination could re-create feelings from the past, to improve their own and a future world.2 Wordsworth added that such recreated feeling, based in intense personal experience, ‘does itself actually exist in the mind’. Scott’s achievement, according to Lukács, was to recover socially embedded feeling from beyond the boundaries of personal experience because located in the deeper past, but still in such a way that individuals could experience it in their minds. Through a figurative form of time travel, then, people could relate more sympathetically to one another and establish a better society, responding to understanding produced by feelings as well as by thought. Whether or not Scott is accepted as a mainstream Romantic, it would be difficult to imagine a writer more concerned about community. Furthermore, literature for him is the medium through which this process of remembering can go on in ways that look forward as well as to the past. Scott’s formal education included classics and law along with Scottish Enlightenment epistemologies of organization, systematic enquiry and empirical Georg Lukács, The Historical Novel, trans. by Hannah and Stanley Mitchell (Harmondsworth: 1 Penguin, 1962), p. 42. The use of the masculine pronoun in the quoted passage from the Mitchells’ translation will be objectionable to some readers, so the feminine is included. Wordsworth, ‘Preface’, in Lyrical Ballads, With Other Poems (London: Longman and Rees, 2 1800), pp. xxxiii–xxxiv. See also Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ch. 13. Yearbook of English Studies, 47 (2017), 1–15© Modern Humanities Research Association 2017 deduction. That combination of knowledge evidently fits the model of an ordered imagination that Michel Foucault has defined as dominant in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.3 A more personal world of reading in the allegories of medieval romance, interest in conjectural as well as stadial history (both developments of the Enlightenment), and a willingness to explore the vicissitudes of Romantic sensibility mark Scott out as someone who, more than is often acknowledged, preferred to live his imaginative life near to the edge of what he saw to be possible.4 Almost everything he wrote confronts anxiety about worlds that are about to be lost or rendered obscure. His poems, novels, verse dramas, and collected ballads are in part an attempt to ward off cultural annihilation. At another level, sometimes crossing the threshold into mawkishness , they strive through nostalgia to compensate for guilt and grief over what has been lost. But at his best, while his political allegiances could not have been more different, Scott’s authorial ambitions across several genres can be compared with Percy Shelley’s argument that poetry ‘arrests the vanishing apparitions that haunt the interlunations of life’.5 Scott was a lawman by profession, serving as Sheriff-Deputy of Selkirk and Clerk to the Court of Session in Edinburgh; arrest and case studies were part of his day’s work.6 As a writer he was drawn to what remains mysterious and unsettling. Yet despite a steady stream of attention from committed scholars, it was not until the late twentieth century that Scott returned to prominence in studies outside Scottish literature. In the 1980s, interest in his writing began to..." @default.
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