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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.

Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward

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    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 06/02/2023
    ISBN13: 9781474429870, 978-1474429870
    ISBN10: 1474429874

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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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.

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