The narrative poems

Alison Lumsden, Ainsley Mcintosh

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Abstract

This essay argues that Walter Scott's narrative poems both embed and go beyond Romantic aesthetics, and that their model of scepticism, fragmentation and fracturing offers a precursor for our own, more troubled, condition of postmodernity.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
EditorsFiona Robertson
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
Pages35-46
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9780748670208, 9780748670192
ISBN (Print)9780748641291, 9780748641307
Publication statusPublished - 24 Sept 2012

Publication series

NameEdinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature

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