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Walter Scott at 250 : Looking Forward / Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Matthew Wickman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474429863
  • 9781474429887
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.7 23
LOC classification:
  • PR5332 .W35 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Walter Scott at 250 – and Counting -- 1 Temporality and Historical Fiction Reading in Scott -- 2 ‘I bide my time’: History and the Future Anterior in The Bride of Lammermoor -- 3 Scott’s Anachronisms -- 4 Scott, the Novel, and Capital in the Nineteenth Century -- 5 The General Undertaker: Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte and the Prehistory of Neoliberalism -- 6 Scott and the Art of Surplusage: Excess in the Narrative Poems -- 7 Performing History: Theatricality, Gender, the Early Historical Novel and Scott -- 8 Where We Never Were: Women at Walter Scott’s Abbotsford -- 9 Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene -- 10 Redgauntlet: Speculation in History, Speculation in Nature -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Walter Scott in the twenty-first centuryTen essays that show Scott is a man for our timesMajor scholars introduce a new Walter ScottNew ideas on the novel and temporalityNew ideas about Scott’s playful textualityIntroducing the women of AbbotsfordAt 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as present. His times were times of crisis. Scott, then, has much to share in the experience, narration, anticipation and response to change as a condition of life – a condition our era, with its existential challenges to climate, to public health, to civilization knows only too well. In Scott at 250, major scholars foreground the author as theorist of tomorrow – as the surveyor of the complexities of the present who also gazes, as we do, toward an anxious and hopeful future.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Walter Scott at 250 – and Counting -- 1 Temporality and Historical Fiction Reading in Scott -- 2 ‘I bide my time’: History and the Future Anterior in The Bride of Lammermoor -- 3 Scott’s Anachronisms -- 4 Scott, the Novel, and Capital in the Nineteenth Century -- 5 The General Undertaker: Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte and the Prehistory of Neoliberalism -- 6 Scott and the Art of Surplusage: Excess in the Narrative Poems -- 7 Performing History: Theatricality, Gender, the Early Historical Novel and Scott -- 8 Where We Never Were: Women at Walter Scott’s Abbotsford -- 9 Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene -- 10 Redgauntlet: Speculation in History, Speculation in Nature -- Bibliography -- Index

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Walter Scott in the twenty-first centuryTen essays that show Scott is a man for our timesMajor scholars introduce a new Walter ScottNew ideas on the novel and temporalityNew ideas about Scott’s playful textualityIntroducing the women of AbbotsfordAt 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as present. His times were times of crisis. Scott, then, has much to share in the experience, narration, anticipation and response to change as a condition of life – a condition our era, with its existential challenges to climate, to public health, to civilization knows only too well. In Scott at 250, major scholars foreground the author as theorist of tomorrow – as the surveyor of the complexities of the present who also gazes, as we do, toward an anxious and hopeful future.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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