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Scott and empire: the case of Rob Roy.(Sir Walter Scott)(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20020322
Author:Lincoln, Andrew

Recent studies of romanticism have begun to set both canonical writings and newly rediscovered texts in the context of the global phenomenon of empire. Katie Trumpener's wide-ranging account of the Romantic novel, for example, and Saree Makdisi's ambitious survey of Romantic imperialism, have demonstrated that, as Makdisi puts it, "Romanticism cannot be understood properly without reference to modern imperialism and modern capitalism" (xi). In these studies, which depict romanticism as a response to, critique of, and constitutive element of the process of modernisation, Scott is ...

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