Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott

Of all the great novelists of the Romantic period, only two, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, have been continuously reprinted, admired, argued about, and read, from the moment their works first appeared until the present day.  In a pioneering study, Annika Bautz traces how Scott''s nineteenth-century success among all classes of readers made him the most admired and most widely read novelist in hist...