1. Introduction: Walter Scott and the Environment; 2. Shifting Ecologies: Grasslands, Rivers and Shorelines; 3. Toxic Ecologies, Ecogothic, and Violence Against the Land; 4. Wild Places, Rarity and Extinction; 5. Trees; 6. Stone, Water, Air.
Demonstrates how Walter Scott, one of Romanticism's most globally influential authors, put Scotland's ecologies at the heart of nineteenth-century writing.
Susan Oliver is Deputy Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Essex. She is the winner of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize for Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (2006), and is also the editor of The Yearbook of English Studies: New Approaches to Walter Scott (2017).
'Lucidly written and theoretically informed, this study asserts the
vital relationships between literature, social history, and the
natural world … Highly recommended.' E. Kraft, Choice Connect
'Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland shows that corrections
to modernity's excesses emerged simultaneously within the discourse
of modernity, countering a false triumphalist narrative of linear
progress toward liberal social economies. In laying the foundation
for this kind of reassessment, Oliver has published an important
work that scholars will find rewarding for years to come.' J.
Andrew Hubbell, Modern Philology
'The sweep of research on display in this book is breathtaking.'
Alexander Dick, European Romantic Review
'… there is much fascinating material in the book exploring the way
Scott uses myth and legend as a way of expressing the “enjoyable
magic” of the land.' Mandy Haggith, Green Letters: Studies in
Ecocriticism
'… an ambitious book, in dialogue throughout with recent work on
nature and land ethics … [that] lays down an important challenge
and an invitation to further studies.' Kathryn Sutherland, The
Times Literary Supplement
'Susan Oliver's Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland
represents an important contribution to the field, as it makes a
compelling case for what at first may seem a surprising addition to
the list of eco-conscious Romantics: the estate-owning Tory, Walter
Scott. Yet Oliver provides a fascinating and comprehensive
assessment of his work from an environmental perspective, which
demonstrates the full extent of his contribution to early
nineteenth-century ecological theory and historiography.' Kenneth
McNeil, The Wordsworth Circle
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