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8 The popularity has actually been waxing and waning even since the Elizabethan period (Alice Chandle (.).

7 Mark Girouard, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman, New Haven, Yale Universit (.).

5 Alice Chandler, A Dream of Order, The Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Lond (.).

4 It is also considered a breakthrough in the sense that it was the first of Scott’s novel to be prin (.).

3 James Hart in The Popular Book gives as an instance of the vast popularity of Ivanhoe in the United (.).

Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible for the war. There, the genuine and wholesome civilization of the nineteenth century is curiously confused and commingled with the Walter Scott Middle-Age sham civilization and so you have practical, common-sense, progressive ideas, and progressive works mixed up with the duel, the inflated speech, and the jejune romanticism of an absurd past that is dead, and out of charity ought to be buried. He did measureless harm more real and lasting harm, perhaps, than any other individual that ever wrote. Then comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress, and even turns it back sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms with decayed and swinish forms of religion with decayed and degraded systems of government with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society.

1 Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, New York, Library of America, 1982, p. 500-501.

Both Cooper – the “American Scott” – and Washington Irving thus transplant medieval features onto the wilderness, thereby presenting the New World as a land calling for chivalric feats, paradoxically endowing that supposed pristine landscape with a general atmosphere of romance. – to describe the Native Americans that people their narratives.

Indeed, Scott’s American contemporaries resort to the medieval apparatus that was brought back into fashion by Ivanhoe – stereotypes of knight-errantry, damsels in distress, code of honour, etc. The enthusiasm of the American readership in the early decades of the 19 th century seems to reveal a general attraction for the European Middle Ages. This book in particular, which takes medieval England as its background, was probably one of the most widely read of the Waverley Novels in America. Yet this text also follows, in the same issue, an article reviewing the whole of Scott’s texts that had been so far published and which quotes lengthy excerpts from the latest romance, Ivanhoe. “In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?” This oft-quoted sentence actually comes from a review written by Sidney Smith in January 1820 for the Edinburgh Review of Adam Seybert’s book, Statistical Annals of the United States of America. Ce paysage supposé primitif en vient alors à être paradoxalement pourvu d’une atmosphère de romance. James Fenimore Cooper, dénommé le « Scott américain », tout comme Washington Irving transposent ces motifs médiévaux sur le wilderness et dépeignent ainsi le Nouveau Monde comme une terre vouée aux prouesses chevaleresques. – pour décrire les Amérindiens qui peuplent leurs textes. En effet, les contemporains américains de Scott ont recours aux motifs médiévaux déjà présents dans Ivanhoe – stéréotype du chevalier servant, demoiselle en détresse, code de l’honneur, etc. Cet engouement révèle alors un attrait pour le Moyen-Âge européen chez les Américains des premières décennies du xix e siècle.

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En effet, ce roman de Sir Walter Scott qui met en scène l’Angleterre médiévale fut sans doute l’un des plus populaires aux États-Unis.

Ce n’est sans doute pas un hasard si ce même texte suit dans le numéro un article qui fait un compte rendu des œuvres de Scott publiées jusqu’alors et qui cite en guise d’exemple de longs extraits du dernier roman en date, Ivanhoe.

« In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? » Cette phrase bien connue est tirée d’un compte-rendu fait en janvier 1820 par Sidney Smith du livre d’Adam Seybert Statistical Annals of the United States of America pour l’ Edinburgh Review.