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Title
The afterlives of Walter Scott
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Rigney, Ann (Contributor)
Subject
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832--Appreciation. (LCSH)
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832--Adaptations. (LCSH)
Collective memory and literature (LCSH)
Nationalism and literature (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Classification
LCC: PR5341 .R54 2012 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 823.7 full (Source: 23)
HL 4265 (Source: rvk)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a household name in the nineteenth century; once an immensely popular writer, he 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 provided an imaginative resource for creating a collective relation to the past that was compatible with widespread mobility and social change; and that he thus forged a potent alliance between memory, literature, and identity that was eminently suited to modernizing. In the process he helped prepare his own obsolescence but his legacy continues in the widespread belief that showcasing the past is a condition for transcending it."--Publisher's website.
Table Of Contents
Portable monuments
Procreativity: remediation and Rob Roy
Re-scripting Ivanhoe
Re-enacting Ivanhoe
Locating memory: Abbotsford
Commemorating Scott: 'That imperial man'
How long was immortality?
Epilogue: cultural memory, cultural amnesia.
Authorized Access Point
Rigney, Ann The afterlives of Walter Scott
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: full
Description Conventions: Anglo-American cataloguing rules
Identified By: bf:Local, 17081701 bf:Local, 015964079
Change Date: 2013-08-10T10:25:18
Creation Date: 2011-12-13
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Description Authentication: LC Copy Cataloging
Assigner: UKMGB