Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality

by James Reed

Scott was the first British novelist to discover in landscape a literary as well as a pictoral medium, an insight which he exploits to powerful effect in his Scottish novels. Mr Reed's book breaks new ground by demonstrating the originality of Scott's landscapes, in which romantic nature takes its place in a realistic context of people, history, architecture and traditions. The author shows how, as poet and novelist, Scott explores the notion of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472509293
• ISBN13: 9781472509291
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"