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SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771
- 1832):
CRUSADERS, MINISTRELS AND STUART KINGS SIX SESSIONS of an ADULT EDUCATION COURSE OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2007 Six Two-Hour Sessions for Montreat College, NC -- MCCALL Held on Consecutive Mondays at Highland Farms Retirement Community, Black Mountain, North Carolina CLICK ON THE SESSION YOU WANT TO READ A Work in EARLIEST Progress 4/25/2007 C O U R S E O U T L I N E SESSION ONE A. INTRODUCTION. OVERVIEW. LIFE OF SCOTT (1771 - 1832) COURSE CONTENTS: SCOTT AS HISTORY. Was he a "stadialist?" Selected writings are presented chronologically in terms of the historical age described or visited. Intermingling Scott's Prose and Poetry. B. 1811. THE VISION OF DON RODERICK. [Spain 713 - 1811] C. EARLY BRITAIN. --1817. HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS. [Norway, England. 10th Century?] C. THE CRUSADES (PART ONE) -- 1831. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. [The Crusaders Pass Through Constantinople in 1097.] SESSION TWO A. WALTER SCOTT NOVELIST. Invented the historical and the political novel. "Framing" as literary technique. Plot as subordinate frame for colorful characters within which to strut and orate. B. THE CRUSADES (PART TWO): THREE NOVELS OF KING RICHARD THE LION-HEART --1825. THE BETROTHED. [the Welsh Marches during the reign of Henry II 1154–1189 --1825 THE TALISMAN. [the Third Crusade which had been triggered by the Muslim conquest in 1187 of almost the whole of Palestine, including Jerusalem,] --1819. IVANHOE. New York. TOR Books. Paper. 2000. x. 534 pp. (1820 on title-page) [England, late 12th C.] SPECIAL: --1850. William Makepeace THACKERAY, REBECCA AND ROWENA. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SESSION THREE A. POEMS AND NOVELS AS INTRODUCTIONS TO HISTORY B. TALES OF EUROPE 1307 - 1513. THE WARS OF THE ROSES AND GLIMPSES OF THE EARLY STEWART (STUART) KINGS OF SCOTLAND. 1. TWO TALES OF SCOTLAND --1815. THE LORD OF THE ISLES. [Begins 1307. Robert Bruce returns from Ireland. Through Battle of Bannockburn.] --1828. THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH. [1396 during the reign of the second Stewart King Robert III of Scotland. 2. TWO TALES OF THE CONTINENT --1823. QUENTIN DURWARD. [1468 France and Burgundy. Louis XI, France's craftiest King, falls into the hands of the Duke Charles of Burgundy, the Continent's rising star.] --1829. ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN. [ 1474 - 1475. Switzerland, France, Burgundy and Provence. End game of England's War of the Roses. Downfall of Duke Charles of Burgundy.] 3. TWO POEMS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND --1808. MARMION. [Poem. Battle of Flodden Field, September 9, 1513.] -- 1805 THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. [Poem. Sorcery on the Marches of Scotland and England.] =-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SESSION FOUR A. THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND --1820. THE MONASTERY. [ Sept. 10, 1547:Scotland. Battle of Pinkie Cleugh ] --1820. THE ABBOT [1560s] B. ENGLAND FROM 1560 to 1678. --1821. KENILWORTH. New York. Airmont. 1969. Paperback. Introduction by Dr. Beryl Rowland. 448 pp. [England, 16th C.] --1822. THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL. [England. +/- 1610, James VI and I] --- 1819. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. Scotland 1642 - 1643. A Rising for King Charles I. --1826. WOODSTOCK or THE CAVALIER. 1651/1652 to 1660. Charles II. --1822. PEVERIL OF THE PEAK. (1823 on title-page) [England, 1678 Popish Plot] ==-=-=-===-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SESSION FIVE SCOTLAND 1690 - 1737 A. --1821. THE PIRATE. London and Aylesbury. Shetland and Orkney Islands July and August 1689. --1819. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. The old order passes in Scotland. Around 1700. --1816. THE BLACK DWARF. Scotland in brand new UK. Queen Anne. 1707 - 1708. B. --1816. THE TALE OF OLD MORTALITY [Scotland1727?] --1818. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN Scotland, England, 1737 and later. Days of King George II.] ==-=-=-===-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SESSION SIX SCOTLAND 1745 - 1767. LAST HURRAH OF THE STUARTS. OTHER WRITINGS OF SCOTT. THE WALTER SCOTT OPERAS. WALTER SCOTT'S IMPACT. ABBOTSFORD. A. --1814. WAVERLEY: 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE. --1824. REDGAUNTLET: A TALE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. An imaginary last hurrah of Bonnie Prince Charlie. [1767] --1823. ST. RONAN'S WELL. B. LESSER WORKS. SUMMING UP. Scott as Editor: Dryden, Swife. Scott as Historian: Grandson. Napoleon Buonaparte. Polemicist and Journalist. -OOO- =-=-=-=-= MATERIALS STILL TO BE SLOTTED IN ABOVE: --1803. MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER. --1808. THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN. --1809. A COLLECTION OF SCARCE AND VALUABLE TRACTS. --1813. ROKEBY. THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN. (poems) --1814. THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT. --1815. GUY MANNERING, or THE ASTROLOGER. --1816. MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND HISTORY OF THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND. New York. Barnes & Noble Books. Paper. 2004. Introduction by Ewen A. Cameron. xvi. 172 pp. --1816. PAUL'S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK. --1816. TALES OF MY LANDLORD (THE BLACK DWARF and THE TALE OF OLD MORTALITY). --1816. THE ANTIQUARY. Edited by David Hewitt. With introduction by David Punter. New York. Penguin Classics. 1998. xlvi. 454 pp. Scots glossary 436 - 454. --1817. ROB ROY. --- 1819. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE and THE BLACK DWARF (1816). --1825. Paris? LIVES OF EMINENT NOVELISTS AND DRAMATISTS. --1827 THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. 9 Volumes. --1827. CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE (CHRYSTAL CROFTANGRY'S NARRATIVE, THE HIGHLAND WIDOW, THE TWO DROVERS, THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER). --1827. TALES OF A GRANDFATHER. (Scotland to 1603) --1829. HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, Volume I --1830. HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Volume 2. --1830. LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT --1972. 1998. 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