Walter Scott and the Limits of Language
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Literary Studies
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- ISBN 9780748641536
- Weight: 533g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Scott's startlingly contemporary approach to theories of language and the creative impact of this on his work are explored in this new study. Alison Lumsden examines the linguistic diversity and creative playfulness of Scott's fiction and suggests that an evolving scepticism towards the communicative capacities of language runs throughout his writing. Lumsden re-examines this scepticism in relation to Scottish Enlightenment thought and recent developments in theories of the novel. Structured chronologically, the book covers Scott's output from his early narrative poems until the late, and only recently published, Reliquiae TrotcosiensesKey Features*Grounded in the scholarship of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels*Covers the well-known as well as often neglected poetry and late fiction*Demonstrates Scott's pivotal role in the development of the novel form*Provides a thoroughly modern approach to Scott
Alison Lumsden is a senior lecturer in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen and co-director of the Walter Scott Research Centre. She was for many years research fellow and then General Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and has published on several Scottish authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Nan Shepherd and Louis Grassic Gibbon. She is about to begin work on a scholarly edition of Scott's poetry.
