Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland - Emergent Ecologies of a Nation

Demonstrates how Walter Scott, one of Romanticism's most globally influential authors, put Scotland's ecologies at the heart of nineteenth-century writing.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Walter Scott and the Environment; 2. Shifting Ecologies: Grasslands, Rivers and Shorelines; 3. Toxic Ecologies, Ecogothic, and Violence Against the Land; 4. Wild Places, Rarity and Extinction; 5. Trees; 6. Stone, Water, Air.

About the author

Susan Oliver is Deputy Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Essex. She is the winner of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize for Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (2006), and is also the editor of The Yearbook of English Studies: New Approaches to Walter Scott (2017).

Summary

For academics, students and general readers interested in how literature intersects with environmental history, a focus on Walter Scott and nineteenth-century writing puts this study in the context of the emerging Anthropocene. Scotland's human and nonhuman land relations along with ecocritical theory provide national and global perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Oliver, Susan (University of Essex) Oliver, Oliver Susan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781108926881
• ISBN: 978-1-108-92688-1
• No. of pages: 251
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; English, Scotland, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Environmentalist thought and ideology