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Scottish Literature
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Theory
Walter Scott
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- ISBN 9781474429870
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Walter Scott in the twenty-first century
Ten essays that show Scott is a man for our times
Major scholars introduce a new Walter Scott
New ideas on the novel and temporality
New ideas about Scott's playful textuality
Introducing the women of Abbotsford
At 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.
Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her monographs include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (2005) and The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (2012). She edited the anthologies Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (2005) and Scotland as Science Fiction (2007) and co-edited volumes such as Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward (2021) and The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature (2022). She published an edition of Mary Paterson (2015) and is currently editing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped and John Gibson Lockhart’s Reginald Dalton for EUP. With Alan Riach, she is developing the Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Matthew Wickman is Professor of English at Brigham Young University and Founding Director of the BYU Humanities Center. He is the author of Literature after Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), The Ruins of Experience: Scotland’s “Romantick” Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Pennsylvania, 2007), and many articles on Scottish literary and intellectual history and in other fields across the interdisciplinary humanities.
