Is this guy to blame for the romanticized version of the medieval

The only thing that is to blame in that book is that Ivanhoe did not went with best girl.

>>9385192
Rebecca. I read this book as a child, and have never forgotten her name.

Of course he's not to blame. Some great ones by him: Kenilworth, Quentin Durward, the Heart of Midlothian.

>>9385209

Amusingly, there is another author who wrote a book that follows up on the story and where Ivanhoe finally reunites with Rebecca.

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>>9384686
>what is medieval ROMANCE

Romanticization of the Middle ages has been a big thing for a while desu. Orlando Furioso, the Arthurian Cycle, even Don Quixote put the idea of gallant knights and ladies into the limelight. Only recently have we really started to criticize it.

>>9385192
tfw 19th century fiction is literally Anime

>>9385209
How's The Talisman? I have it and am planning to read it soon after my current backlog

>>9386279
>Only recently

What is The Enlightenment?

>>9386279
The difference is that Don Quijote made fun of it and critizice the idea of romanticized chilvary from a renaissance point of view. While Orlando Furioso, the Arthurian Cycle and the Song of Roland are pivotal pieces of medieval idillyc thought.

>>9386289
Haven't read it yet, but I do have a copy-- an old Dutton\Dent with a bright yellow cover. Another one of his I've been meaning to read is The Antiquarian.

>>9385300
Did u read it? Is it as bad as I'm imagining?

Waverley is much better anyway.

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He's responsible for turning my country's culture into a tartan-tat shit-fest.

also, fuck you mel gibson.

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>>9388015
The Scottish cringe in full cringe.
Embrace the tat, Anon. Or at least laugh at how much foreigners love it. Every country has stupid tourist shit, and every country has a fact-shy romanticised past, but we're the only ones that get all embarrassed by it.

>>9387942

No, but I plan to.

>>9388746
What is the name?

>>9388789


"Rebecca And Rowena: A Romance Upon Romance" by William Makepeace Thackeray

>>9389040
Will have to check out. Read the Four Georges not too long ago; like Thackery's essay mode.

>>9388746
Post when you do. I'll be one of the 3 or 4 responding!