TY  - JOUR
VL  - 64
CY  - Berlin
EP  - 398
IS  - 4
A1  - Sommer, Tim
N2  - Since the latter part of the nineteenth century, critics have tended to treat Walter Scott?s fiction disparagingly ? the tacit assumption often being that it lacks formal sophistication or semantic ?depth.? Reading Scott against the grain of this reception, I argue here that "Ivanhoe" (1819/1820) commands an allusive density which complicates such verdicts. Offering a detailed analysis of both the novel?s hermit figure and the cultural geography in which it appears, this essay retraces Scott?s references to eighteenth-century literary, aesthetic, architectural, and horticultural discourses. Acutely aware of drawing from a codified set of readily consumable images, Scott both quotes and subverts the eighteenth-century hermit tradition. Employing an elaborately intertextual strategy to defamiliarize readerly notions of identity and signification, Scott?s writing emerges as somewhat more complex than the history of his critical reception would seem to suggest.
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
Y1  - 2016///
TI  - Deceptive Signification : Walter Scott, "Ivanhoe", and Eighteenth-Century Hermit Discourse
AV  - public
SP  - 385
ID  - heidok27559
JF  - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2016-0036
SN  - 2196-4726 (Online-Ausg.), 0044-2305 (Druck-Ausg.)
PB  - De Gruyter
ER  -