Abstract
Walter Scott is sometimes the invisible elephant in the room as regards contemporary studies in Romanticism or Victorianism, but his long narrative poems and historical novels were critically acclaimed and popularly received—printed, pirated, and transformed—on an unprecedented scale in Europe and America throughout the nineteenth century. As such, Scott provides an excellent means of investigating how literary works are produced and received within and across national borders. This paper identifies national and develops transnational approaches to book history by considering thematic, formal, and material means of transmission relevant to the participation of the Waverley Novel in modern self-identity and group formation, with particular emphasis on The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | New Word Order: Transnational Themes in Book History. Ed. Swapan Chakravorty and Abhijit Gupta. Delhi: Worldview, 2011. 94-117. |
| Place of Publication | Delhi |
| Pages | 94-117 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- literature
- cultural studies
- novel
- historical novel
- modernity
- Britain
- Walter Scott