Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality

Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality
ISBN-10
1472514114
ISBN-13
9781472514110
Series
Sir Walter Scott
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
198
Language
English
Published
2014-01-13
Publisher
A&C Black
Author
James Reed

Description

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.

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