The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott - (Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature) by Fiona Robertson (Paperback)

About the Book

This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.

Book Synopsis

The most concentrated and wide-ranging study of Walter Scott's work available. This Companion is the first collection of its kind devoted to Scott's work. It draws on the innovative research which has revitalised the study of Scott's exceptionally diverse writing in recent years. In these 12 chapters, experts on Scott reflect on his place in literary and popular culture, his experimentation and originality, his relationship to Romanticism, and the revaluation of lesser-known works. There are chapters on Scott's poetry, on Scott as collector and editor of traditional ballads, his novels, his critical writing on history, economics, folklore and literature, his place in the history of ideas, and his importance to Scottish culture. Taken together, the chapters reveal a figure of central importance to Scottish, European and American Romanticism. Key Features: The first reader's guide to Sir Walter Scott; Chapters by leading Scott scholars including Ian Duncan (Berkeley), Ina Ferris (Ottawa), Kenneth McNeil (Eastern Connecticut), Tara Ghoshal Wallace (George Washington), Nicola J Watson (Open U); Makes the most innovative and authoritative criticism of Scott available to all including students and general readers with broad appeal across Scottish Studies; Covers the full range of Scott's writing

From the Back Cover

EDINBURGH COMPANIONS TO SCOTTI SH LITERATURE SERIES EDITORS: IAN BROWN & THOMAS OWEN CLANCY This series offers new insights into Scottish authors, periods and topics drawing on contemporary critical approaches. Each volume: - provides a critical evaluation and comprehensive overview of its subject - offers thought-provoking original critical assessments by expert contributors - includes a general introduction by the volume editor(s) and a selected guide to further reading. The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott Edited by Fiona Robertson The most concentrated and wide-ranging study of Walter Scott's work available. This Companion is the first collection of its kind devoted to Scott's work. It draws on the innovative research which has revitalised the study of Scott's exceptionally diverse writing in recent years. In these 12 chapters, experts on Scott reflect on his place in literary and popular culture, his experimentation and originality, and his relationship to Romanticism; and re-evaluate many of his lesser-known works. There are chapters on Scott's poetry, on Scott as collector and editor of traditional ballads, his novels, his critical writing on history, economics and literature, his place in the history of ideas, and his importance to Scottish culture. Taken together, the chapters reveal a figure of central importance to Scottish, European and American Romanticism. Key Features - The first reader's guide to Sir Walter Scott - Chapters by leading Scott scholars including Ian Duncan (Berkeley), Ina Ferris (Ottawa), Kenneth McNeil (Eastern Connecticut), Tara Ghoshal Wallace (George Washington), Nicola J Watson (Open University) - Makes the most innovative and authoritative criticism of Scott available to all including students and general readers with broad appeal across Scottish Studies - Covers the full range of Scott's writing Fiona Robertson is Horace Walpole Professor of English Literature at St Mary's University College. She has published several editorial and critical studies of Walter Scott as well as works on a range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature. Cover image: Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, c.1824, Edwin Henry Landseer (c) Lebrecht Authors Cover design: [insert logo file] www.euppublishing.com

Review Quotes

The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott successfully reorients Scott criticism for generations of readers by offering a comprehensive and cohesive exploration of the man and his work in their social, historical, and artistic totalities.

--J. Greg Matthews, Cataloging Librarian, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA "Reference Reviews, Vol 28, No 2 "

About the Author

Fiona Robertson is Horace Walpole Professor of English Literature at St Mary's University College and a former Reader in English at the University of Durham and Research Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. She has published several editorial and critical works on Walter Scott among a range of studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature.