Ivanhoe (Australia, USA) Quick reference
Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)
...Ivanhoe , Australia, USA The three cities in the USA (in California, Minnesota, and Virginia) and the two in Australia (New South Wales and Western Australia) are all thought to be named after Walter Scott’s novel published in 1819 . The title and the name of the hero, actually Wilfred of Ivanhoe but called Ivanhoe, are...
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The Oxford Companion to Music
...Ivanhoe . Opera in three acts by Sullivan to a libretto by Julian Sturgis after Walter Scott's novel ( 1819 ) (London, 1891 ): Sullivan's only ‘serious’...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... A novel by Walter Scott , published 1819 . The story deals, somewhat anachronistically, with the antagonism in England between Saxon and Norman during the reign of Richard I . The hero, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, disowned by his father Cedric the Saxon because of his love for Cedric's ward, the lady Rowena, has joined King Richard on crusade; Prince John, taking advantage of the king's absence, endeavours to seize the throne himself. The story hinges on two main episodes: the tournament at Ashby‐de‐la‐Zouche where Ivanhoe, returned in disguise, and...
Ivanhoe Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... A novel by Walter Scott , published 1819 . The story deals, somewhat anachronistically, with the antagonism in England between Saxon and Norman during the reign of Richard I . The hero, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, disowned by his father Cedric the Saxon because of his love for Cedric's ward, the lady Rowena, has joined King Richard on crusade; Prince John, taking advantage of the king's absence, endeavours to seize the throne himself. The first of Scott's novels to deal with an English, rather than Scottish subject, Ivanhoe is also one of his best...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
... 1. Opera in 3 acts by Sullivan (his only ‘grand opera’) to lib. by J. Sturgis after Scott's novel ( 1819 ). Comp. 1890 . Prod. London 1891 (run of 160 perfs.); Berlin 1895 ; Boston 1991 . 2. Pasticcio by Rossini , Paris 1826 , CG 1829 , NY 1832 , rev. Mont Pellier 1990...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... Sir Walter Scott took the name of his novel ( 1819 ) and its hero from the village of Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire. He recalled an old rhyme but changed the spelling of the name. (His spelling was not necessarily a mistake, and the name actually appears as Ivanhoe in a document dated 1665 . Scott could not have seen this, however, since it was published only in 1905 .) Tring, Wing and Ivinghoe For striking of a blow Hampden did forego And glad he could escape so. The Hampden of this tradition, ancestor of the squire of ship money fame, is said to...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... the hero of Scott's novel ( 1819 ) of that name, a knight of noble Saxon lineage at the time of the Crusades; he becomes a friend and supporter of Richard the Lionheart, despite the traditional enmity between Normans and Saxons, which Scott presents as having survived from the 11th...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...When Scott takes up Ivanhoe ( 1819 ), his first historical novel not on a Scottish subject, he again addresses himself to the chronological coding of uneven development, declaring that in order to find a state of society in English history equivalent to the earliest he had described in Scotland, he found himself having to go back to the twelfth century. He also, however, expresses his concern over cultural projection from the norms of his own present culture onto the past on which he was writing. Shelley, writing independently of Ivanhoe , but not of Scott's...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...of Scottish peasant characters generally agreed to steal the show from their nominal heroes: these novels include Old Mortality ( 1816 ), The Heart of Midlothian ( 1818 ), and The Bride of Lammermoor ( 1819 ). Recently, however, critics have returned to novels such as Ivanhoe: A Romance ( 1819 )—probably the single most dominant cultural product of the nineteenth century— Kenilworth ( 1821 ), and Quentin Durward ( 1823 ) as novels which reclaim the historical imagination as a form of pageant. Scott's novels, notably Redgauntlet ( 1824 ), combine...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...newly fashionable from 1818 , to bear strange fruit in John *Martin 's Old Testament paintings or Thomas Lovell *Beddoes 's Bride's Tragedy ( 1822 ) and Death's Jest Book (begun 1825 ). Scott portrayed a schismatic, ungovernable middle ages in three novels of 1820 , Ivanhoe, The Monastery , and The Abbot ; Mary *Shelley , a brilliantly complex and sophisticated sketch of a fourteenth-century city-state in Valperga ( 1823 ). In their target (religious and political orthodoxy) and their technique of textual appropriation, Byron's later ‘biblical’...
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