Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality

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Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality is written by James Reed and published by A&C Black. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1472514114 (ISBN 10) and 9781472514110 (ISBN 13).

Scott was the first British novelist to discover in landscape a literary as well as a pictoral medium, an insight which he exploits to powerful effect in his Scottish novels. Mr Reed's book breaks new ground by demonstrating the originality of Scott's landscapes, in which romantic nature takes its place in a realistic context of people, history, architecture and traditions. The author shows how, as poet and novelist, Scott explores the notion of place to a depth where it operates not merely as dramatic background but as a force which shapes and directs the minds of its inhabitants. This study adds a new dimension to the understanding of Scott's work.