Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critical Commentary The problem in Scott criticism is to explain the decline of the fame and critical reputation of the Waverley Novels since the highwater mark during the nineteenth century. Once Scott was regarded as the greatest English novelist-above Fielding, Jane Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot. Despite the high price of his books Scott's career as a best-selling novelist was phenomenal, and the tide of his popularity continued for two generations after his death. But today his books are considered children's reading and molder away on shelves of unopened "clas...
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