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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.
Contents
AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and Shortened Forms of ReferenceIntroduction: Walter Scott at 250 - and Counting, Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Matthew Wickman
1. Temporality and Historical Fiction Reading in Scott, Ina Ferris2. 'I bide my time': History and the Future Anterior in The Bride of Lammermoor, Penny Fielding3. Scott's Anachronisms, Ian Duncan4. Scott, the Novel, and Capital in the Nineteenth Century, Anthony Jarrells5. The General Undertaker: Scott's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte and the Prehistory of Neoliberalism, Celeste Langan6. Scott and the Art of Surplusage: Excess in the Narrative Poems, Alison Lumsden7. Performing History: Theatricality, Gender, the Early Historical Novel and Scott, Fiona Price8. Where we Never Were: Women at Walter Scott's Abbotsford, Caroline McCracken-Flesher9. Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene, Susan Oliver10. Redgauntlet: Speculation in History, Speculation in Nature, Matthew Wickman
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