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Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation - Softcover

Kelly, Stuart

 
9781846975646: Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1846975646 ISBN 13: 9781846975646
Verlag: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2021

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stuart Kelly was raised in the Scottish Borders and studied English at Balliol College Oxford, gaining a first class degree and a Master of Studies. He is the Literary Editor of Scotland on Sunday and a freelance critic and writer.

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Verlag
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1846975646
ISBN 13 
9781846975646
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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