Walter Scott and the Limits of Language
ISBN: 9780748651610
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Edinburgh University Press
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Subjects: Literary Studies (19th Century) Literary Studies (Fiction Novelists and Prose Writers); Literary Studies (18th Century);

Scott's startlingly contemporary approach to theories of language and the creative impact of this on his work are explored in this new study. Alison Lumsden examines the linguistic diversity and creative playfulness of Scott's fiction and suggests that an evolving scepticism towards the communicative capacities of language runs throughout his writing. Lumsden re-examines this scepticism in relation to Scottish Enlightenment thought and recent developments in theories of the novel. Structured chronologically, the book covers Scott's output from his early narrative poems until the late, and only recently published, Reliquiae Trotcosienses


Alison Lumsden is Senior Lecturer, Department of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen

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