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03605aam a2200469 i 4500 001 40A439C8072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210803s2021 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021024785 020 $a 1108926886 020 $a 9781108926881 020 $a 1108831575 020 $a 9781108831574 035 $a (OCoLC)1269417496 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCF $d ZWU $d YDX $d OCLCO $d AAA $d IL4J6 $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-st 050 00 $a PR5341 $b .O45 2021 082 00 $a 823/.7 $2 23 100 1 $a Oliver, Susan, $d 1955- $e author. 245 10 $a Walter Scott and the greening of Scotland : $b emergent ecologies of a nation / $c Susan Oliver. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xiii, 229 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; $v [132] 520 $a "The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and writes this narrative into the history of environmental literature. Farmed environments, mountains, moors and forests, along with rivers, shorelines, islands and oceans, are systematically explored, situating Scott's writing about shared human and nonhuman environments in the context of the emerging Anthropocene. Susan Oliver attends to changes and losses acting in counterpoint to the narratives of 'improvement' that underpin modernization in land management. She investigates the imaginative ecologies of folklore and local culture. Each chapter establishes a dialogue between ecocritical theory and Scott as storyteller of social history. This a book that shows how Scott challenged conventional assumptions about the permanency of stone and the evanescence of air; it begins with the land and ends by looking at the stars. Susan Oliver is Professor of Literature and Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Essex. She is the winner of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (2006) and is also the editor of The Yearbook of English Studies: New Approaches to Walter Scott (2017)"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 207 - 221) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Walter Scott and the enviornment -- Shifting ecologies: Grasslands, rivers and shorelines -- Toxic ecologies, ecogothic and violence against the land -- Wild places, rarity and extinction -- Trees -- Stones, water, air. 600 10 $a Scott, Walter, $d 1771-1832 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Scott, Walter, $d 1771-1832. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01801529 650 0 $a Human ecology in literature. 650 7 $a Ecology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901557 650 7 $a Environmental literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00913178 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 651 0 $a Scotland $x In literature. 651 7 $a Scotland. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206715 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Oliver, Susan, 1955-. $t Walter Scott and the greening of Scotland $d Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781108917674 $w (DLC) 2021024786 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; $v 132. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031714.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=40A439C8072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search