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Possible Scotlands - Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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Possible Scotlands - Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its
parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone
that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the
twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of
the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of
history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that
it could not construct a politics for a changing world.
Possible Scotlands disagrees. It argues that the tales Scott told,
however romanticized, also provided for a national future. They do
not tell the story of a Scotland lost in time and lacking value.
Instead they open up a narrative space where the nation is always
imaginable. This book reads across Scott's complex characters and
plots, his many personae, his interventions in his nation's
nineteenth-century politics, to reveal the author as an energetic
producer of literary and national culture working to prevent a
simple or singular message. Indeed, Scott invites readers into his
texts to develop multiple and forward-looking interpretations of a
Scotland always in formation. Scott's texts and his nation are
alive in their constant retelling. Scott was an author for
Scotland's new times.
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