Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh

by Ian Duncan and Ian Duncan

Book Overview

Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life.

Duncan traces the rise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691144265
• ISBN13: 9780691144269
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"