Well, Mark Twain for one, who argued that the Southerners would have been better off reading Cervantes than reading Scott. See Life on the Mississippi
I knew, too, but I suspect most people have forgotten the influence Scott had on the antebellum South.
Well, Mark Twain for one, who argued that the Southerners would have been better off reading Cervantes than reading Scott. See Life on the Mississippi
ReplyDeleteI knew, too, but I suspect most people have forgotten the influence Scott had on the antebellum South.
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