The afterlives of Walter Scott : memory on the move
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The afterlives of Walter Scott : memory on the move
Oxford University Press, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-322) and index
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was once a household name, but is now largely forgotten. This book explores how Scott's work became an all-pervasive point of reference for cultural memory and collective identity in the nineteenth century, and why it no longer has this role. Ann Rigney breaks new ground in memory studies and the study of literary reception by examining the dynamics of cultural memory and the 'social life' of literary texts across several generations and
multiple media. She pays attention to the remediation of the Waverley novels as they travelled into painting, the theatre, and material culture, as well as to the role of 'Scott' as a memory site in the public sphere for a century after his death. Using a wide range of examples and supported by many
illustrations, Rigney demonstrates how remembering Scott's work helped shape national and transnational identities up to World War One, and contributed to the emergence of the idea of an English-speaking world encompassing Scotland, the British Empire and the United States. Scott's work forged a potent alliance between memory, literature, and identity that was eminently suited to modernization. His legacy continues in the widespread belief that engaging with the past is a condition for
transcending it.
目次
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Portable Monuments
- 2. Procreativity: remediation and Rob Roy
- 3. Re-scripting Ivanhoe
- 4. Re-enacting Ivanhoe
- 5. Locating memory: Abbotsford
- 6. Commemorating Scott: 'that imperial man'
- 7. How long was immortality?
- Epilogue: Cultural memory, cultural amnesia
- Notes
- References
- List of illustrations
- Index of Names
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