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Scott's Shadow - The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Paperback)
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Scott's Shadow - The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Paperback)
Series: Literature in History
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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.
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