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  • Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation

    Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland by Oliver, Susan;

    Emergent Ecologies of a Nation

    Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; 132;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 21 December 2023

    • ISBN 9781108926881
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages251 pages
    • Size 229x152x13 mm
    • Weight 370 g
    • Language English
    • 555

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    Short description:

    Demonstrates how Walter Scott, one of Romanticism's most globally influential authors, put Scotland's ecologies at the heart of nineteenth-century writing.

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    Long description:

    The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and writes this narrative into the history of environmental literature. Farmed environments, mountains, moors and forests along with rivers, shorelines, islands and oceans are explored, situating Scott's writing about shared human and nonhuman environments in the context of the emerging Anthropocene. Susan Oliver attends to changes and losses acting in counterpoint to the narratives of 'improvement' that underpin modernization in land management. She investigates the imaginative ecologies of folklore and local culture. Each chapter establishes a dialogue between ecocritical theory and Scott as storyteller of social history. This is a book that shows how Scott challenged conventional assumptions about the permanency of stone and the evanescence of air; it begins with the land and ends by looking at the stars.

    'Lucidly written and theoretically informed, this study asserts the vital relationships between literature, social history, and the natural world ... Highly recommended.' E. Kraft, Choice Connect

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Introduction: Walter Scott and the Environment; 2. Shifting Ecologies: Grasslands, Rivers and Shorelines; 3. Toxic Ecologies, Ecogothic, and Violence Against the Land; 4. Wild Places, Rarity and Extinction; 5. Trees; 6. Stone, Water, Air.

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