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28%OFFIan Duncan - Scott´s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh - 9780691144269 - V9780691144269
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Scott´s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh

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Description for Scott´s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh Paperback. Series: Literature in History. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Literature in History
Condition
New
Weight
657g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691144269
SKU
V9780691144269
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About Ian Duncan
Ian Duncan is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel and the coeditor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism.

Reviews for Scott´s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh
Winner of the 2008 Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award A compelling account of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when Edinburgh rivalled London as a centre for literary and cultural innovation. Duncan shows Walter Scott's key role redefining the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life.
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