| Description |
1 online resource (241 p.) |
| 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 |
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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 |
At 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 fast |
| Subject |
Change in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Change in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McCracken-Flesher, Caroline
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Wickman, Matthew
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| ISBN |
1474429882 |
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9781474429887 |
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9781474429894 |
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1474429890 |
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