Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation

ISBN-13: 9781108831574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 220 str.

Susan Oliver

Opis

Demonstrates how Walter Scott, one of Romanticism's most globally influential authors, put Scotland's ecologies at the heart of nineteenth-century writing.

Recenzje

'… 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

Spis treści

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.