{"title":"Walter Scott and the Future of Caricature in the Novel","authors":"Olivia Ferguson","doi":"10.1353/srm.2021.0009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores Scott’s defense of “caricature” in the Novelist’s Library edition of Smollett’s novels and in the Magnum Opus editions of Ivanhoe, The Monastery, and The Talisman. I argue that fantastic and satirically rendered characters legible as “caricatures,” such as Sir Piercie Shafton, could represent the future of historical romance. My focus on what caricature meant to Scott, his readers, and readers of old and new novels in the early nineteenth century, suggests the potential of looking beyond satirical prints and graphic portraiture in an effort to understand caricature’s broader significance in the literary culture of the Romantic period.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"60 1","pages":"205 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2021.0009","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article explores Scott’s defense of “caricature” in the Novelist’s Library edition of Smollett’s novels and in the Magnum Opus editions of Ivanhoe, The Monastery, and The Talisman. I argue that fantastic and satirically rendered characters legible as “caricatures,” such as Sir Piercie Shafton, could represent the future of historical romance. My focus on what caricature meant to Scott, his readers, and readers of old and new novels in the early nineteenth century, suggests the potential of looking beyond satirical prints and graphic portraiture in an effort to understand caricature’s broader significance in the literary culture of the Romantic period.
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Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.
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