The Afterlives of Walter Scott. Memory on the Move.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2012
- Hardcover
- New
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), once an immensely popular writer, is now largely forgotten. This book explores how works like Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy percolated into all aspects of cultural and social life in the nineteenth century, and how his work continues to resonate into the present day even if Scott is no longer widely read. Num Pages: 348 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 223 x 14. Weight in Grams: 546. . 2012. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- The Afterlives of Walter Scott. Memory on the Move.
- Author
- Rigney, Ann
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199644012
- ISBN 13
- 9780199644018
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Ann Rigney was born in Dublin, educated at University College Dublin and the University of Toronto, and is currently professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. She was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in 2005. She has published widely in the field of cultural memory, philosophy of history, and nineteenth-century historiography. Her books include The Rhetoric of Historical Representation: Three Narrative Histories of the French Revolution (Cambridge UP, 1990) and Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism (Cornell UP, 2011).
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