• ISBN13: 9781474429870
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Edinburgh UP
• Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh
• Publication Date: January 1, 2023
• Pages: 240
• Original Price: USD 28.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 341 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Subjects & Themes / Historical Events

From the Back Cover
Walter Scott in the twenty-first century In Scott at 250, major scholars revisit Walter Scott as a theorist of tomorrow, as the surveyor of the complexities of the present who also gazes, as we do, toward an anxious and hopeful future. Ten original essays explore new ideas on the novel, temporality and Scott's playful textuality, as well as introducing the women of Abbotsford. Scott has much to share in the experience, narration, anticipation and response to change as a condition of life - a condition our era, with its existential challenges to climate, to public health, to civilisation knows only too well. Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Wyoming. Matthew Wickman is Professor of English at Brigham Young University and Founding Director of the BYU Humanities Center.

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline: - Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her monographs include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (2005) and The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (2012). She edited the anthologies Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (2005) and Scotland as Science Fiction (2007) and co-edited volumes such as Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward (2021) and The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature (2022). She published an edition of Mary Paterson (2015) and is currently editing Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped and John Gibson Lockhart's Reginald Dalton for EUP. With Alan Riach, she is developing the Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers.

Wickman, Matthew: - Matthew Wickman is Professor of English at Brigham Young University and Founding Director of the BYU Humanities Center. He is the author of Literature after Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Pennsylvania, 2007), and many articles on Scottish literary and intellectual history and in other fields across the interdisciplinary humanities.