TY - BOOK ID - 3190676 TI - Scott's Shadow PY - 2016 VL - *7 SN - 0691043833 9780691043838 1400884306 9781400884308 9780691121604 0691121605 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. KW - Nationalism in literature. KW - Romanticism KW - History and criticism. KW - Scottish authors KW - Scott, Walter, KW - 820 KW - 820 Engelse literatuur KW - Engelse literatuur KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Pseudo-romanticism KW - Romanticism in literature KW - Author of "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., KW - Cleishbotham, Jedediah, KW - Layman, KW - Malagrowther, Malachi, KW - Paul, KW - S., W. KW - Scott, W. KW - Skott, Valʹter, KW - Skott, Walter, KW - Somnambulus, KW - Ssu-ko-tʻe, KW - Ssu-ko-tʻe, Wa-erh-tʻe, KW - Sukotsu, KW - Sukotto, KW - Templeton, Laurence, KW - W. S. KW - Wa-erh-tʻe Ssu-ko-tʻe, KW - "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., Author of, KW - סקאט, וואלטער, KW - סקוט, וולטר, KW - Influence. KW - Scotland KW - Edinburgh (Scotland) KW - In literature. KW - Intellectual life KW - Edinburgh (Lothian) KW - City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh (Scotland) KW - Dun Eideann (Scotland) KW - Duneideann (Scotland) KW - Literary movements KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Aesthetics KW - Fiction KW - National characteristics, Scottish, in literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - English literature KW - Scottish authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - 820 English literature. Literature in English KW - English literature. Literature in English UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3190676 AB - 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 of a cultural nationalist ideology and the ascendancy of Scott's Waverley novels in the years after Waterloo. He argues that the key to Scott's achievement and its unprecedented impact was the actualization of a realist aesthetic of fiction, one that offered a socializing model of the imagination as first theorized by Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume. This aesthetic, Duncan contends, provides a powerful novelistic alternative to the Kantian-Coleridgean account of the imagination that has been taken as normative for British Romanticism since the early twentieth century. Duncan goes on to examine in detail how other Scottish writers inspired by Scott's innovations--James Hogg and John Galt in particular--produced in their own novels and tales rival accounts of regional, national, and imperial history. Scott's Shadow illuminates a major but neglected episode of British Romanticism as well as a pivotal moment in the history and development of the novel. ER -