Author: James Colston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
History of the Scott Monument, Edinburgh
Author: James Colston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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The Afterlives of Walter Scott
Author: Ann Rigney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191636428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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 I, 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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191636428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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 I, 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.
Performing the Past
Author: Karin Tilmans
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089642056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale. --
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089642056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale. --
History of the Scott Monument, Edinburgh; to Which Is Prefixed a Biographical Sketch of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: James Colston
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230356570
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... walter scott was born in Edinburgh, on the 15th day of August 1771. His father, who also bore the name of his illustrious son, was a Writer to the Signet, in fair practice; and he again was the third child of Robert Scott, farmer, at Sandy-Knowe, in Roxburghshire, being lineally descended from the Scotts of Harden. It was often the great novelist's boast to trace back his descent from that ancient house. He thus wrote: --' I am lineally descended from that ancient chieftain (of Harden) whose name I have made to ring in many a ditty, and from his fair dame the Flower of Yarrow--no bad genealogy for a Border minstrel.' Scott's mother was Anne Rutherford, eldest daughter of Dr. John Rutherford, Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, one of the founders of the Medical School of that seat of learning, which has since risen to such distinction as a school of medicine. About the year 1748, he A was the first to introduce the practice of delivering clinical lectures in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh--a practice which is now regarded as so essential a branch of medical education. On his mother's side, Scott was descended from Sir John Swinton of Swinton, Berwickshire, a family of considerable influence and old standing. His descent, therefore, on both sides of the house from ancient respectable Scottish families, was a fact which was not only gratifying to one of Scott's tastes and sympathies, but it must to some extent have influenced his future career in life. The house in which Scott was born was situated at the head of the College Wynd, a narrow alley leading from the street called the Cowgate at the foot of the hill, upwards to what was the situation of the old College gate, before the handsome pile of buildings and the fine..
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230356570
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... walter scott was born in Edinburgh, on the 15th day of August 1771. His father, who also bore the name of his illustrious son, was a Writer to the Signet, in fair practice; and he again was the third child of Robert Scott, farmer, at Sandy-Knowe, in Roxburghshire, being lineally descended from the Scotts of Harden. It was often the great novelist's boast to trace back his descent from that ancient house. He thus wrote: --' I am lineally descended from that ancient chieftain (of Harden) whose name I have made to ring in many a ditty, and from his fair dame the Flower of Yarrow--no bad genealogy for a Border minstrel.' Scott's mother was Anne Rutherford, eldest daughter of Dr. John Rutherford, Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, one of the founders of the Medical School of that seat of learning, which has since risen to such distinction as a school of medicine. About the year 1748, he A was the first to introduce the practice of delivering clinical lectures in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh--a practice which is now regarded as so essential a branch of medical education. On his mother's side, Scott was descended from Sir John Swinton of Swinton, Berwickshire, a family of considerable influence and old standing. His descent, therefore, on both sides of the house from ancient respectable Scottish families, was a fact which was not only gratifying to one of Scott's tastes and sympathies, but it must to some extent have influenced his future career in life. The house in which Scott was born was situated at the head of the College Wynd, a narrow alley leading from the street called the Cowgate at the foot of the hill, upwards to what was the situation of the old College gate, before the handsome pile of buildings and the fine..
Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Author: J. Leerssen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137412143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137412143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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History of the Scott Monument, Edinburgh
Author:
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Category : Scott Monument (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Publisher:
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Category : Scott Monument (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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