Blanco White y Walter Scott
ISSN: 1576-7914
Year of publication: 2009
Issue Title: Nicasio Álvarez Cienfuegos (1764-1809)
Issue: 10
Pages: 247-262
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos Dieciochistas
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.