Blanco White and Walter Scott

Abstract

The first edition of Ivanhoe; a romance. By the author of Waverley was published in Edinburgh in 1820. From the beginning of year 1823, José María Blanco White translated several excerpts from Ivanhoe in the numbers 1-3 of the magazine Variedades, owned by the publisher Rudolph Ackermann. in these articles and other later writings, the translator praised Scott as a model for a new way of painting history in a narrative. This paper studies his ideas on Scott’s historical novel, as well as his translation technique, compared with that of José Joaquín de Mora.

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Author Biography

Fernando Durán López

University of Cádiz
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Filología. Avda. Doctor Gómez Ulla s/n. -11003 – Cádiz (España)
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