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Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher ,
Matthew Wickman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781474429870
ISBN 10: 1474429874
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 06 February 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""'Correctly identifying Scott in 1825 as undoubtedly the most popular writer of the age"",?William Hazlitt also lodged a complaint against him:?""He is just half what the human intellect is capable of being: if you take the universe, and divide it into two parts, he knows all that it has been; all that it is to be is nothing to him."" But then, rephrasing, Hazlitt produces a pithier and more apt formulation, calling Scott a ""prophesier of things past"".?Without citing Hazlitt's punchline, this commemorative anthology of essays teases out its implications. This book is a thoughtful and provocative exploration of how reading Scott might matter going forward for futures past, and passing, and to come.'"""" -James Chandler, The University of Chicago"
""'Correctly identifying Scott in 1825 as undoubtedly the most popular writer of the age"",?William Hazlitt also lodged a complaint against him:?""He is just half what the human intellect is capable of being: if you take the universe, and divide it into two parts, he knows all that it has been; all that it is to be is nothing to him."" But then, rephrasing, Hazlitt produces a pithier and more apt formulation, calling Scott a ""prophesier of things past"".?Without citing Hazlitt's punchline, this commemorative anthology of essays teases out its implications. This book is a thoughtful and provocative exploration of how reading Scott might matter going forward for futures past, and passing, and to come.'"""" -James Chandler, The University of Chicago
Author Information
Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She runs the University of Wyoming in Scotland program and directs UW's Center for Global Studies. Her books include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford, 2005), The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Novels (Oxford, 2012), the edited volumes Culture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell, 2007), Scotland As Science Fiction (Bucknell, 2012), and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (MLA, 2013). Her edition of Stevenson's Kidnapped is forthcoming from EUP.Matthew Wickman is Professor of English at Brigham Young University and Founding Director of the BYU Humanities Center. He is the author of Literature after Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's Romantick Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Pennsylvania, 2007), and many articles on Scottish literary and intellectual history and in other fields across the interdisciplinary humanities.
