1.  Subject Name: Romantic Literature
 Topic Name: An introduction to Walter Scott [1771-1832]
Prepared By: Prakruti
Krishna
Jeel
Ruchita

2.  Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
 Return To Nature
 Love for history
 Element of supernatural
 Focus on individual
 Departure from reason

3.  Edinburgh, 15th August 1771
 Mother was a woman of
character and education,
strongly imaginative, a
teller of a tale which stirred
young Walter’s enthusiasm
and also developed an
intense love of Scottish
history and tradition.
 As a child Walter was lame
and delicate.
 Died of a paralysis attack.

4.  Started off with translations from German (Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border)
 Best sellers in poetry:
1) The Lay Of the Last Minstrel(1805)
2) Marmion (1808) and
3) The Lady of the Lake (1810)

5.  However, Scott is better known for the following novels:
1) Waverly series
2) Ivanhoe
3) Rob Roy
4) The Lady of the Lake
5) The Bride of Lammermoor
6) The Heart of Midlothian
 Waverly or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since- set during the
Jacobite Rebellions of 1745. The novel is often
considered the first work of historical fiction.

6.  Inventor of modern historical novel
 “Scott gathered the disparate strands of contemporary
novel-writing techniques into his own hands and
harnessed them to his deep interest in Scottish
history and his knowledge of antiquarian lore. The
technique of the omniscient narrator and the use of
regional speech, localized settings, sophisticated
character delineation, and romantic themes treated in
a realistic manner were all combined by him into
virtually a new literary form, the historical novel.” -
Encyclopedia Britannica

7.  “In the cultural sphere, Scott's Waverley
novels played a significant part in the
movement (begun with James
Macpherson's Ossian cycle) in
rehabilitating the public perception of
the Scottish Highlands and its culture,
which had been formerly suppressed as
barbaric, and viewed in the southern mind
as a breeding ground of hill bandits,
religious fanaticism, and Jacobite
rebellions.” - Wikipedia

8.  Shakespearean Qualities
 Use of Scottish vernacular
 Though his style lacks suppleness, it is powerful, solid and
sure
 E.M Forster’s Aspects of the Novel
 Jane Austen- reason behind Scott’s decline in popularity
(20th century idea)
 Latter half of the 20th century and focus on language of the
matter by the critics

9.  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-Walter-
Scott-1st-Baronet
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745
 https://www.britannica.com/art/historical-novel