University issues trigger warning of ‘racism’ for Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe

28.12.2022

Sir Walter Scott has been dragged into a racism row as his most famous novel is given trigger warnings which the author’s descendants have branded “cowardly”.

The Scottish writer became one of Britain’s most popular for his historical fiction, including the often-adapted epic Ivanhoe, which has now been deemed potentially “disturbing” by academics at the University of Warwick.

Scott’s work has been branded “offensive” in its treatment of racial minorities, but this has provoked a furious response from one of the author’s descendants, who has branded such criticism a “cowardly” response to “political fashion”.

The English department at Warwick warns students: “Amongst the aspects readers might find disturbing, this text includes offensive depictions of people of colour and of persecuted ethnic minorities, as well as misogyny.”

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