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3 | ->''"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."'' |
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5 | Walter Scott (later Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet; 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a 19th-century author of best-selling historical novels, many set in his native UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}. He also wrote plays, poems, short stories, and non-fiction. |
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7 | His best-known works include ''Literature/{{Waverley}}'', ''Literature/RobRoy'', ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'' (which guest-starred Myth/RobinHood and had a significant effect on subsequent portrayals), and ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (which was adapted into a famous opera). Before venturing into prose fiction, which he published anonymously (although his identity was a poorly-kept secret), Scott was a bestselling narrative poet. His later novels were composed under the combined strain of bankruptcy and severe illness. |
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9 | Arguably the most famous and influential novelist of the nineteenth century, frequently imitated across Europe and in the United States. Among the novelists owing him a profound debt: Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper, Creator/CharlesDickens, Creator/GeorgeEliot, Alessandro Manzoni, and Creator/LeoTolstoy. |
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11 | Notoriously, Creator/MarkTwain "sank" Scott in ''Literature/HuckleberryFinn.'' |
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14 | !!Works by Walter Scott: |
15 | [[index]] |
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18 | [[folder: Poems]] |
19 | * ''The Chase, and William and Helen: Two Ballads, translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger'' (1796) |
20 | * ''Glenfinlas'' (1800) |
21 | * ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border'' (1802-03) |
22 | * ''The Lay of the Last Minstrel'' (1805) |
23 | * ''Ballads and Lyrical Pieces'' (1806) |
24 | * ''Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field'' (1808) |
25 | * ''The Lady of the Lake'' (1810) |
26 | * ''The Vision of Don Roderick'' (1811) |
27 | * ''The Bride of Triermain'' (1813) |
28 | * ''Rokeby'' (1813) |
29 | * ''The Field of Waterloo'' (1815) |
30 | * ''The Lord of the Isles'' (1815) |
31 | * ''Harold the Dauntless'' (1817) |
32 | * ''Bonnie Dundee'' (1825) |
33 | [[/folder]] |
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35 | [[folder: Plays]] |
36 | * ''Goetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand: A Tragedy'' (1799): A translation of Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe's ''Theatre/GotzVonBerlichingen'' |
37 | * ''Halidon Hill'' (1822) |
38 | * ''[=MacDuff=]'s Cross'' (1823) |
39 | * ''The Doom of Devorgoll'' (1830) |
40 | * ''Auchindrane'' (1830) |
41 | [[/folder]] |
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43 | [[folder: Novels]] |
44 | * ''Literature/{{Waverley}}'' (1814) |
45 | * ''Literature/GuyMannering'' (1815) |
46 | * ''The Antiquary'' (1816) |
47 | * ''The Black Dwarf'' (1816) |
48 | * ''Literature/OldMortality'' (1816) |
49 | * ''Literature/RobRoy'' (1817) |
50 | * ''The Heart of Mid-Lothian'' (1818) |
51 | * ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (1819) |
52 | * ''A Legend of Montrose'' (1819) |
53 | * ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'' (1819) |
54 | * ''Literature/TheMonastery'' (1820) |
55 | * ''The Abbot'' (1820) |
56 | * ''Literature/{{Kenilworth}}'' (1821) |
57 | * ''Literature/ThePirate'' (1821-22) |
58 | * ''The Fortunes of Nigel'' (1822) |
59 | * ''Peveril of the Peak'' (1822) |
60 | * ''Quentin Durward'' (1823) |
61 | * ''St. Ronan's Well'' (1824) |
62 | * ''Redgauntlet'' (1824) |
63 | * ''The Betrothed'' (1825) |
64 | * ''The Talisman'' (1825) |
65 | * ''Woodstock'' (1826) |
66 | * ''Chronicles of the Canongate'' (1827): Contains two short stories and a novel published together |
67 | * ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' (1828) |
68 | * ''Anne of Geierstein'' (1828) |
69 | * ''Count Robert of Paris'' (1832) |
70 | * ''Castle Dangerous'' (1832) |
71 | * ''The Siege of Malta'' (written between 1831-32, first published in 2008) |
72 | * ''Bizarro'' (unfinished, first published in 2008) |
73 | [[/folder]] |
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75 | [[folder: Short stories]] |
76 | * ''The Inferno of Altisidora'' (1811) |
77 | * ''Christopher Corduroy'' (1817) |
78 | * ''Alarming Increase of Depravity Among Animals'' (1818) |
79 | * ''Phantasmagoria'' (1818) |
80 | * ''The Keepsake Stories'' (1828): Three short stories published together |
81 | * ''A Highland Anecdote'' (1832) |
82 | [[/folder]] |
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84 | !!Adapted works with their own trope pages: |
85 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfQuentinDurward'' |
86 | * ''Film/{{Ivanhoe}}'' |
87 | * ''Film/RobRoy'' |
88 | [[/index]] |
89 | ---- |
90 | !!Walter Scott's other works provide examples of: |
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92 | * AlternateHistory: ''Redgauntlet'', set during an imagined third Jacobite rebellion. |
93 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: ''The Antiquary.'' |
94 | * AffablyEvil: Claverhouse in ''Old Mortality,'' although Scott doesn't treat him as a full-blown monster. |
95 | * BarSinister (TropeMaker) |
96 | * BenevolentBoss: It is mentioned in ''Wandering Willie's Tale'' that for all Sir Robert's brutal actions against the Covenanters, he was never a bad master to his own people, and well liked by tenants and servants alike. |
97 | * CharacterTitle: Quite a few, including ''Guy Mannering'', ''Waverley'', ''Ivanhoe'', and ''Quentin Durward''. |
98 | * DarkIsNotEvil |
99 | * DirectLineToTheAuthor: Nearly all of the novels are supposedly "written" or "edited" by somebody other than Scott, with Scott the recipient of (and literary agent for) the results. The best-known of these editorial personae are Jedediah Cleishbotham, Captain Clutterbuck, Chrystal Croftangry, and Peter Pattieson. |
100 | * EpistolaryNovel: For part of ''Redgauntlet.'' |
101 | * TheFundamentalist: Scott had little patience for this in any form. Examples: |
102 | ** ''The Heart of Midlothian'': Davie Deans (who eventually arrives at a grudging truce with his more moderate son-in-law). |
103 | ** ''Old Mortality'': The Covenanters. |
104 | * FunetikAksent: Scott kindly provided glossaries. |
105 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Everywhere. For example: |
106 | ** John Graham of Claverhouse in ''Old Mortality.'' |
107 | ** Rob Roy [=MacGregor=] in ''Rob Roy''. |
108 | ** Queen Caroline and the Duke of Argyle (Argyll) in ''The Heart of Midlothian.'' |
109 | ** UsefulNotes/MaryOfScotland in ''The Abbot.'' |
110 | ** UsefulNotes/ElizabethI, Amy Robsart, and the Earl of Leicester in ''Kenilworth.'' |
111 | ** Louis XI of France in ''Quentin Durward.'' |
112 | ** Charles Edward Stuart (the "Young Pretender") in ''Redgauntlet.'' |
113 | ** UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart in ''Ivanhoe''. |
114 | * LadyMacbeth: Lady Ashton in ''The Bride of Lammermoor.'' |
115 | * LargeHam: Chesterton defended him from the charge that to many of his characters were {{Large Ham}}s by pointing out that that was what made them great characters. |
116 | * MySecretPregnancy: The aftermath of a concealed pregnancy drives the plot in ''The Heart of Midlothian.'' |
117 | * TheOphelia: Lucy Ashton in ''The Bride of Lammermoor''; Madge Wildfire in ''The Heart of Midlothian.'' |
118 | * PinballProtagonist: One of Scott's calling cards is the passive protagonist, who often spends most of the novel being carted around by the ActionHero. The best-known examples are the title characters in ''Waverley'' and ''Ivanhoe'' (the latter famously spends a battle sequence flat on his back in a tower, unable to see anything that's going on). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the protagonist of ''The Abbot,'' who, after being hit with a WhatTheHellHero, points out with considerable exasperation that he hasn't the slightest clue what's going on, or what he's supposed to be doing. |
119 | * PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: ''The Bride of Lammermoor.'' |
120 | * PublicDomainCharacter: The magician Michael Scott in ''Lay of the Last Minstrel''. |
121 | * ScrapbookStory: ''Redgauntlet'' combines third-person POV with an epistolary novel, then adds the inset story "Wandering Willie's Tale" for good measure. (That last is now better-known than the novel itself.) |
122 | * ShoutOutToShakespeare: Several, including ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' (Isaac and Rebecca in ''Ivanhoe'') and ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' (much of ''The Bride of Lammermoor''). |
123 | * SplitHair: In ''The Talisman'', Saladin demonstrates the sharpness of his [[CoolSword Saracen sword]] by dropping a cushion onto it, which is neatly sliced in half. |
124 | * ToHellAndBack: "Wandering Willie's Tale." |
125 | * VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''The Heart of Midlothian'' and ''The Bride of Lammermoor.'' |
126 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook |
127 | * WorthyOpponent: One of his calling cards was to have decent people of differing races and religions and even on the opposite sides of a war. |
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