Scott's shadow : the novel in Romantic Edinburgh / Ian Duncan.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-373) and index.

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Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; List of Illustrations ; Preface ; PART I ; Chapter 1 Edinburgh, Capital of the Nineteenth Century ; A King and No King ; The Modern Athens ; A Post-Enlightenment ; Scotch Novel Writing ; Chapter 2 The Invention of National Culture.

A Scottish Romanticism From Political Economy to National Culture ; "A fast middle-point, and grappling-place" ; "Patriarch of the National Poetry of Scotland" ; Chapter 3 Economies of National Character ; Dirt ; Purity ; Beauty ; Enjoyment ; Traffic.

Chapter 4 Modernity's Other Worlds Scott's Highlands ; Topologies of Modernization ; Inside and Outside the Wealth of Nations ; Modernity's Other Worlds ; Chapter 5 The Rise of Fiction ; Seeing Nothing ; The Sphere of Common Life ; The Rise of the Novel and the Rise of Fiction.

Fiction and Belief Historical Fiction ; After History ; PART II ; Chapter 6 Hogg's Body ; Ettrick Shepherd ; Hogg's Scrapes ; Men of Letters ; Border Minstrels ; The Suicide's Grave ; Organic Form ; Chapter 7 The Upright Corpse ; The Mountain and Fairy School.

Leagues and Covenants Magical Realism ; The Upright Corpse ; Resurrection Men ; Chapter 8 Theoretical Histories of Society ; Local Theoretical History ; Exemplarity: Annals of the Parish ; Ideology: The Provost ; Plot: The Entail ; Chapter 9 Authenticity Effects.

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.

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