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Walter Scott, postcolonial theory, and New South literature.(Critical Essay)

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From: The Mississippi Quarterly
Date: 20030922
Author:Schmidt, Peter

THE IMPORTANCE OF SIRWALTER SCOTT'S FICTION for U.S. Southern culture has hardly gone unnoticed, from Mark Twain's exasperated quip about the South's "Sir Walter disease" (1) or Charles W. Chesnutt's ironic allusions to Ivanhoe in The House Behind the Cedars, (2) to C. Hugh Holman's more recent examination of Scott's influence on William Gilmore Simms's American Revolutionary romances, (3) or Laura Doyle's study of ideals of race purity that initiates its analysis with Scott. (4) But at this juncture in U.S. literary history, when paradigms derived from colonial and postcolonial ...

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