Walter Scott at 250 (eBook, PDF)

Looking Forward
Redaktion: McCracken-Flesher, Caroline; Wickman, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474429887
• Artikelnr.: 72421923

Autorenporträt

Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She runs the University of Wyoming in Scotland program and directs UW's Center for Global Studies. Her books include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford, 2005), The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Novels (Oxford, 2012), the edited volumes Culture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell, 2007), Scotland As Science Fiction (Bucknell, 2012), and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (MLA, 2013). Her edition of Stevenson's Kidnapped is forthcoming from EUP. 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Shortened Forms of Reference
Introduction: Walter Scott at 250 - and Counting, Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Matthew Wickman
1. Temporality and Historical Fiction Reading in Scott, Ina Ferris
2. 'I bide my time': History and the Future Anterior in The Bride of Lammermoor, Penny Fielding
3. Scott's Anachronisms, Ian Duncan
4. Scott, the Novel, and Capital in the Nineteenth Century, Anthony Jarrells
5. The General Undertaker: Scott's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte and the Prehistory of Neoliberalism, Celeste Langan
6. Scott and the Art of Surplusage: Excess in the Narrative Poems, Alison Lumsden
7. Performing History: Theatricality, Gender, the Early Historical Novel and Scott, Fiona Price
8. Where we Never Were: Women at Walter Scott's Abbotsford, Caroline McCracken-Flesher
9. Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene, Susan Oliver
10. Redgauntlet: Speculation in History, Speculation in Nature, Matthew Wickman
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index.