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.
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