Walter Scott at 250 : looking forward / edited by Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Matthew Wickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline, Author.

Contributor:

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline, editor.

Wickman, Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Change in literature.

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.

Scott, Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

At 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Notes on 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-2989-0

1-4744-2988-2

OCLC:

1243552228