Romantic Literature

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Comparative study Jane Austen Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter ScottHis short

biography.

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh

As the son of a Solicitor.

His father was a lawyer and Scott

him self was called to Scottish Bar

(1792)

At the age of eighteen months

he was crippled for life by a childish

aliment.

And though he grew up to be a

man of great physical

robustness he never lost his lameness.

Jane Austen the daughter of a

Hampshire clergymanWas born at Stevenson.

She was educated at home ; Jane’s education was

conducted on sound lines.

Her life was unexciting being little more than a series of pilgrimages to

different place of residence

Her first published works were issued anonymously, and she is died in middle

age.

Jan Austen and her short biography.

Walter Scott

Features of His NovelRapidity of

Production

His

Contribution

His Shaeske-sperian Quality

His Style

Her Features of the novel

Her PlotsHer

CharactersHer Place in the history of Fiction

Comparative Study

Walter Scott’s poem Scott ‘s earliest poetical efforts were translat- lations from the German. In The Lay of last Minstrel (1805) there is much more

originality. In popular estimation Marmion is held to be Scott's master masterpiece.

Jane Austen’s poem• Her first novel no-• vel was Pride and • Prejudice(1796-97• published 1813). • In it , as in all her

works, we have middle class people pursuing the common round.

Scott interested in the old Border tales and ballads

had early been awakened, and he devoted much of

his leisure to the exploration of the Border Country. His early years Scott spent in sanday-

know , in the residence of his paternal grand father .

There his grand mother told him tales of old

heroes.

Sir Walter Scott Home

Abbotsford

Tomb Of Sir Walter Scott

Their novels

Jane Austen• Sense And Sensibility (1811)• Pride and Prejudice (1813)• Mansfield Park (1814)• Emma (1815)• Persuasion (1818)

Walter Scott• Waverley (1814)• Ivanhoe (1819) (poem)• Life of Napoleon which was

published in 9 volumes in 1827.

• His Dramatic work:• Halidon Hill (1922)• A Melodrama (1830)

Writer and poet and born story teller and Master of

dialogue one of the greatest historical novelists whose

favorite subject was his native Scotland. Scott wrote twenty-

seven historical novel. His influence is seen among other

in the works of James Fennimore cooper Alexander

Dumas, and Alexander Pushkin.