![]() The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. more Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's. This is 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. Each chapter establishes a dialogue between ecocritical theory and Scott as storyteller of social history. She investigates the imaginative ecologies of folklore and local culture. Susan Oliver attends to changes and losses acting in counterpoint to the narratives of 'improvement' that underpin modernization in land management. Farmed environments, mountains, moors and forests along with rivers, shorelines, islands and oceans are explored, situating Scott's writing about shared human and nonhuman environments in the context of the emerging Anthropocene. 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. Toxic Ecologies, Ecogothic, and Violence against the Land 4. Toxic Ecologies, Ecogothic, and Violence again. ![]() I am Honorary Fellow in Literary Studies in the Department of English, University of Wyoming, and a Senior Member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.Ĭhapters: 1. Mellon Fellow at the Huntington Library, Visiting Fellow in Literary Studies at the University of Wyoming, Fellow at the American Philosophical Society, the MLA International Bibliography, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University. Recent fellowships include: the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Library Company of Philadelphia, Andrew W. I'm also Senior Bibliographer for the MLA International Bibliography, having been a Bibliography Fellow and Bibliographer since 2005. Professionally, I serve on the Executive Committees of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), the MLA Scottish Literature Forum, and on the Advisory Committee for the MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography. ![]() I have published many journal articles and book chapters on British Romantic literature, American nineteenth-century writing, and am completing a monograph on transatlantic periodical culture. The British Academy awarded me the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2007) for my book Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter. My current research projects include the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust funded "Green Scott: Walter Scott's Environmentalism and Writing the Ecologies of a Nation." ![]() In addition to my main research interests in late-eighteenth-century and Romantic period literature, transatlantic studies, periodical culture, and environmental writing, I also work on the more general literature and culture of the long nineteenth century. ![]()
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