No writer has ever been as famous as Sir Walter Scott once was; and no writer has ever enjoyed such huge acclaim followed by such absolute neglect and outright hostility. But Scotland would not be Scotland except for Scott. All the icons of Scottishness have their roots in Scott's novels, poems, public events and histories. It's a legacy both inspiring and constraining, and just one of the ironies that fuse Scott and Scotland into Scott-land. In this book Stuart Kelly reveals Scott the paradox: the celebrity unknown, the ...
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No writer has ever been as famous as Sir Walter Scott once was; and no writer has ever enjoyed such huge acclaim followed by such absolute neglect and outright hostility. But Scotland would not be Scotland except for Scott. All the icons of Scottishness have their roots in Scott's novels, poems, public events and histories. It's a legacy both inspiring and constraining, and just one of the ironies that fuse Scott and Scotland into Scott-land. In this book Stuart Kelly reveals Scott the paradox: the celebrity unknown, the nationalist unionist, the aristocrat loved by communists, the forward-looking reactionary. Part literary study, part biography, part travelogue, part surreptitious autobiography, Scott-land unveils a complex, contradictory man and the complex contradictory country he created. Insightful, accessible, witty and melancholy, this is a 'voyage around my fatherland' like no other.
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Very good jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
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Physical description; 328 pages. Subjects; Scott, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). Scottish identity. Literary biography. Fine cloth copy in a fine dust-wrapper. Well-preserved overall.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo., 328pp. Sharp First Edition. Bound in black cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£16.99 on rear panel) is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy of an uncommon title on this side of the Atlantic.
