Walter Scott
New Interpretations

Edited by Susan Oliver

Yearbook of English Studies 47

Modern Humanities Research Association

22 September 2017

ISBN: 978-1-781882-93-1 (paperback)

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English


The Yearbook of English Studies for 2017 is dedicated to new interpretations of Walter Scott. Edited by Susan Oliver, the volume brings together fifteen essays by scholars from Australia, Europe and the Americas. These contributions represent vital and diverse directions in Scott studies, two hundred years after the celebrated ‘author of Waverley’ followed his early career as an antiquarian and poet with best-selling novels, verse dramas and a variety of prose non-fiction. The collection aims to extend our understanding of Scott’s literary works, public persona, home, onward influence as an authorial presence, and circle of associates. A conceptual framework that incorporates materialist, theoretical, textual, literary-historical and editorial approaches asks how critical enquiry into this globally influential author can most constructively move forward.

The essays are grouped in five themed sections. Beginning the volume, Section I looks into the transmission and afterlives of Scott’s writing, his persona as an author, and his home at Abbotsford. Section II is concerned with contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to Scott. The third group of essays focuses on his poetry, an area in which there is still relatively little published scholarship. In Section IV, it is Scott’s treatment of history and social conflict that provides the framework of enquiry. The concluding group of essays takes Scott criticism into the contemporary critical fields of literary geographies, island and Northern studies, antipodean studies, environmental justice and ecocriticism.

Contributors’ individual enquiries include life writing and archival research; theatre and performance; translation studies; disability studies; theories including ontology and problems relating to materialism and spirituality; the practical considerations of editing a new edition of Scott’s poetry; Scott’s representation of law; a postcolonial exploration of silence and absence; and matters relating to place, space and the natural world.

Contents:

1-15
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Section I — Walter Scott: Transmission and Afterlives
19-35
Six Degrees From Walter Scott: Separation, Connection and the Abbotsford Visitor Books
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0019
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36-57
The ‘universal favourite’: Daniel Terry's Guy Mannering; or, The Gipsey's Prophecy (1816)
Annika Bautz
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0036
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58-74
Handing Over Walter Scott? The Writer's Hand on the English and French Marketplace
Céline Sabiron
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0058
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Section II — Theoretical Approaches and Genre
77-92
Vanishing Mediators and Modes of Existence in Walter Scott's The Monastery
Evan Gottlieb
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0077
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93-109
‘In Contrast to Those Whom We Have Called Materialists, Mr. [Scott] Is Spiritual’: On Scott and Woolf, Romance and ‘Fullness of Life’
Matthew Wickman
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0093
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110-124
The Politics of Fear: Gothic Histories, the English Civil War and Walter Scott's Woodstock
Fiona Price
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0110
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Section III — Scott's Poetry
127-142
Towards the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry
Alison Lumsden
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0127
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143-160
‘Land Debateable’: The Supernatural in Scott's Narrative Poetry
Ainsley McIntosh
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0143
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161-185
The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Improvisatory Authorship
Daniel Cook
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0161
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Section IV — History and Sites of Conflict
189-202
Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary and the Ossian Controversy
Nigel Leask
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0189
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203-223
‘This right of mercy’: The Royal Pardon in The Heart of Midlothian
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0203
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224-240
Sir Walter Scott and the Caribbean: Unravelling the Silences
Carla Sassi
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0224
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Section V — Literary Geographies and Ecocriticism
243-262
‘All That Is Curious On Continent and Isle’: Time, Place, and Modernity in Scott's ‘Vacation 1814’ and The Pirate
Penny Fielding
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0243
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263-278
Scott, India and Australia
Graham Tulloch
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0263
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279-299
Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land
Susan Oliver
doi:10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0279
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Bibliography entry:

Oliver, Susan (ed.), Walter Scott: New Interpretations (= Yearbook of English Studies, 47.1 (2017))

First footnote reference: 35 Walter Scott: New Interpretations, ed. by Susan Oliver (= Yearbook of English Studies, 47.1 (2017)), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Oliver, p. 47.

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Oliver, Susan (ed.). 2017. Walter Scott: New Interpretations (= Yearbook of English Studies, 47.1)

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