Ivanhoe <\/i> <\/a> : Ivanhoe does not end up with the dark, strong Jewess, but with the fair and rather less fiery Rowena (if I\u2019m remembering her name rightly); during the great battle scene, he is laid up in a castle BEING rescued, while Rebecca talks to him about how silly chivalry is. All this suggests that Twain was off the mark in his repeated attacks on Scott\u2019s romantic inclinations, for Scott was also attacking his own romantic inclinations. <\/p>\n Large cultural conflicts are behing all this, what could be seen as a late phase of what might be described as the struggle between medieval and modern sensibility. But Scott is a wholly modern man in that struggle, letting his hero retire from adventure into the comforts of peaceful life. More fundamentally, the fact that Scott RECOGNIZES the medieval sensibility AS romantic means that he\u2019s already outside and beyond looking back. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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