Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
1: Portable Monuments
2: Procreativity: remediation and Rob Roy
3: Re-scripting Ivanhoe
4: Re-enacting Ivanhoe
5: Locating memory: Abbotsford
6: Commemorating Scott: 'that imperial man'
7: How long was immortality?
Epilogue: Cultural memory, cultural amnesia
Notes
References
List of illustrations
Index of Names
Ann Rigney was born in Dublin, educated at University College
Dublin and the University of Toronto, and is currently professor of
Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. She was elected a
member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in 2005. She
has published widely in the field of cultural memory, philosophy of
history, and nineteenth-century historiography. Her books include
The Rhetoric of Historical Representation: Three Narrative
Histories of
the French Revolution (Cambridge UP, 1990) and Imperfect Histories:
The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism (Cornell
UP, 2011).
[This book shows] that scholarly interest in Scottish literature of
this period is both alive and of a very high standard, illustrated
by the quality of the writing itself, by the careful, extensive and
well-documented notes, and the comprehensive bibliographies.
*Andrew Monnickendam, European Romantic Review*
Rigney's lucid, intelligent, well-researched book deserves the
widest possible audience not only for what it tells us about the
fate of Scott's fictions and influence, but also for what it
teaches us about the intricate dance of cultural remembering and
forgetting.
*Evan Gottlieb, Journal of British Studies*
Rigney's book is full of complex concepts, sharp phrases and
original approaches.
*Murray Pittock, Scottish Literary Review*
a highly original contribution ... Rigneyâs work may prove
procreative like Scottâs, fertile in inspiring future works.
*Jeffrey E. Jackson, Dickens Quarterly*
a valuable extension of recent scholarship on the role of Scott's
fiction in the development of the nation state and modernity
*David Buchanan, Journal of Victorian Culture*
Rigney explores the "cultural importance and excitement generated
by [Scott's] work" ... At its heart this book is a study of memory
and forgetting.
*D.A. Henningfeld, Choice*
As its title promises, this book advances the fields of literary
reception, cultural memory, and poetic afterlife. Rarely have I so
enjoyed a work of scholarship. Much of the book's appeal comes from
its cogent analysis of surprising materials ... With erudition and
extensive research ... it offers tools for analyzing the long-term
reception of many books and authors.
*Paul Westover, Review 19*
[a] thoughtful and thought-provoking book ... most useful for those
reading her book are the instruments she uses - and how one can
borrow and make use of them oneself. Particularly eye-opening (for
me, at least) is the wholly persuasive last chapter ("How Long was
Immortality?") and her argument that by historicizing the present -
where we are - Scott opened the way for modernism and set up the
constantly renovating processes ("make it new", as Pound
instructed) which ensured his (Scott's) own inevitable eclipse.
Scott's genius was to dig his own grave - but, mysteriously and
manifestly, as Rigney shows, live on
*John Sutherland, Times Literary Supplement*
This is an outstanding book which deftly shows the limitations of
insistent disciplinary overreliance on text at the expense of
considering its mediations. ... Rigney's book is full of complex
concepts, sharp phrases and original approaches.
*Murray Pittock, Scottish Literary Review*
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