Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter

by Susan Oliver and Susan Oliver

Book Overview

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349544388
• ISBN13: 9781349544387
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"