Sir Walter Scott Landscape and Locality

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Synopsis

Scott was the first British novelist to discover in landscape a literary as well as a pictoral medium, an insight which he exploits to powerful effect in his Scottish novels. Mr Reed's book breaks new ground by demonstrating the originality of Scott's landscapes, in which romantic nature takes its place in a realistic context of people, history, architecture and traditions. The author shows how, as poet and novelist, Scott explores the notion of place to a depth where it operates not merely as dramatic background but as a force which shapes and directs the minds of its inhabitants. This study adds a new dimension to the understanding of Scott's work.

Book details

Series:
Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
Author:
James Reed
ISBN:
9781472514110
Related ISBNs:
9781472509291
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
198
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-10-21
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2014
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction