![]() On his influence in Europe, see Murray Pittock, ed., The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British Authors in Europe, vol. ![]() On the obsolescence of his oeuvre since the twentieth century, see Ann Rigney, The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). On the contribution of Scott to the medieval revival, see Alice Chandler, A Dream of Order: The Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970), 12â∵1 (âOrigins of Medievalism: Scottâ). These words derive ultimately from a Latin verb meaning to bring near or together, from iuxta ânear.â The Italian term for carousel is overtly the word for jousting: giostra, cognate with joust. For the time being the definitive treatment remains Frederick Fried, A Pictorial History of the Carousel (New York: A. Barbara Bell, âThe Performance of Victorian Medievalism,â in Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism, ed. On Lowellâs early and thorough exposure to Scott, see pp. Leon Howard, Victorian Knight-Errant: A Study of the Early Literary Career of James Russell Lowell (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1952), 5. Nicola Watson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 150. The Talisman, from 1825, also set in the Middle Ages, is the second of the Scottish authorâs âTales of the Crusadersâ subseries from within the Waverley Novels. ![]() Here Adams lists in reverse chronological order Scottâs first and second medieval-themed novels, respectively, the 1820 Ivanhoe and the 1823 Quentin Durward. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (henceforth EHA), chap. In what is likelier coincidence than literary allusion, Adams specifies pears, which a millennium and a half earlier in the Confessions, Augustine had professed guiltily to having stolen in his own youth. 3: Some Words about Sir Walter Scott,â The Cornhill Magazine 24 (September 1871): 278â∹3, cited by John Henry Raleigh, âWhat Scott Meant to the Victorians,â Victorian Studies 7.1 (1963): 7â∳4, at 7. Hours in a Library (London: Smith, Elder, 1907), 1: 186â∲29, at 187, originally published as âHours in a Library, No. Samuels (New York: Library of America, 1983), 523.ĭesacralized. 11 âThe Three Queens,â in idem, Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education, ed. Henry Adams, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (henceforth MSMC), chap. Barbarism, superstition, and ignorance covered the face of the world, except in Italyâ). La barbarie, la superstition, lâignorance couvraient la face du monde, excepté en Italieâ (âMorals were not better in France, England, Germany, or in the North. (Paris: Garnier frères, 1963), 2: 10: âLes mÅurs ne furent pas meilleurs ni en France, ni en Angleterre, ni en Allemagne, ni dans le Nord. Essai sur les mÅurs et lâesprit des nations et sur les principaux faits de lâhistoire depuis Charlemagne jusquâà Louis XIII, 2 vols. Lionel Gossman, Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment: The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968).Ī mire of failings. Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye. Online at Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive (Massachusetts Historical Society), (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973â∲013), vol. Butterfield and Marc Friedlaender, eds., Adams Family Correspondence, 12 vols. ![]() Letter to Abigail (âPortiaâ) Adams, without date, 1780, in L. More precisely, Minister Plenipotentiary. OâConnor, The Athens of America: Boston, 1825â∱845 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006). Grant, and his brother was ousted (railroaded out?) from the top position at Union Pacific. For example, his father fell out of favor during the administration of Ulysses S. One of his brothers, Charles Francis Adams Jr., headed the Union Pacific Railway from 1884 to 1890. An inference might be that who we are as well as who we were is contingent upon who later people say we are and were. It does not appear in the published transcript of the trial. The line is spoken by John Quincy Adams in the film Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1997. Charles Eliot Norton, Letter to Henry James, December 5, 1873, Harvard Library, bMS Am 1094 (379). Day by day America drifts farther & farther away from Europe.
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