Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gibson Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Walter Scott

Ancestral Piles

2018 ◽  
pp. 519-541
Author(s):  
Sean Moreland
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
Walter Scott

This essay examines Poe’s conception and use of the Gothic via his engagements with the work of earlier writers from Horace Walpole through Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Poe’s uses of the Gothic, and his relationship with the work of these writers, was informed by his philosophical materialism and framed by his dialogue with the writings of Sir Walter Scott. Tracing these associations reveals Poe’s transformation of the idea of “Gothic structure” from an architectural model, the ancestral pile of the eighteenth-century Gothic, to one of energetic transformation, the electric pile featured in many of Poe’s tales.

WAS SIR WALTER SCOTT MUSICAL?

1936 ◽  
Vol XVII (2) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Author(s):  
A. HEDLEY
Keyword(s):  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Walter Scott
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