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Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward

Caroline McCracken-Flesher

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Release: April 01, 2021

ISBN: 1474429866

ISBN 13: 9781474429863

Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward

Caroline McCracken-Flesher

5/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Release: April 01, 2021

ISBN: 1474429866

ISBN 13: 9781474429863

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