SCOTT'S SHADOW by Ian Duncan ( 9780691144269 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

Item Details

Title:

SCOTT'S SHADOW
THE NOVEL IN ROMANTIC EDINBURGH

By:

Ian Duncan

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£28.00

Our price:

£22.40

Discount:

20% off

You save:

£5.60

ISBN 10:

0691144265

ISBN 13:

9780691144269

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 July, 2016

Series:

Literature in History

Pages:

416

Synopsis:

Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life. Duncan traces the rise of a cultural nationalist ideology and the ascendancy of Scott's Waverley novels in the years after Waterloo. He argues that the key to Scott's achievement and its unprecedented impact was the actualization of a realist aesthetic of fiction, one that offered a socializing model of the imagination as first theorized by Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume. This aesthetic, Duncan contends, provides a powerful novelistic alternative to the Kantian-Coleridgean account of the imagination that has been taken as normative for British Romanticism since the early twentieth century. Duncan goes on to examine in detail how other Scottish writers inspired by Scott's innovations--James Hogg and John Galt in particular--produced in their own novels and tales rival accounts of regional, national, and imperial history. Scott's Shadow illuminates a major but neglected episode of British Romanticism as well as a pivotal moment in the history and development of the novel.

Publication:

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

APPROACHES TO TEACHING SCOTT'S WAVERLEY NOVELS

APPROACHES TO TEACHING SCOTT'S WAVERLEY NOVELS (PB)

BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST MIDLANDS (PB)

HUMAN FORMS