Tag Archives: Walter Scott

Scott on Emma

By chris | Published: 4 November 2009
This post is part of my series of posts looking at the impact of the novel on Enlightenment ethics. It follows the previous post giving Johnson’s view of the realistic novel set out in The Rambler No 4. The publisher of Emma, John Murray, asked Walter Scott to review the novel, which appeared anonymously in the [...]
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Of Rears and Vices

By chris | Published: 2 August 2009
An interesting discussion has sprung up on the Austen-L mailing list around Mary Crawford’s suspicious pun in Chapter 6 of Mansfield Park. “Do you know anything of my cousin’s captain?” said Edmund; “Captain Marshall?  You have a large acquaintance in the navy, I conclude?” “Among admirals, large enough; but,” with an air of grandeur, “we know very [...]
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