{"title":"Reading Walter Scott on the Solway Firth: Books and Borrowing at the Wigtown Subscription Library, 1828–36","authors":"Gerard Lee McKeever","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.a909933","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article analyzes a previously unstudied set of borrowing records covering 1828–36 from the Wigtown Subscription Library in Galloway, southwest Scotland. It describes the context of the library and key features of this borrowing data, including the finding that forty-one Walter Scott titles accounted for 19 percent of all borrowing in this period. Galloway famously provided the outland setting of Scott's Guy Mannering (1815); this borrowing data enables an alternative view of the region and his influence on it. The article argues that readers at the Wigtown library were encountering an expansive network of \"thickly\" described localities through Scott.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.a909933","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: This article analyzes a previously unstudied set of borrowing records covering 1828–36 from the Wigtown Subscription Library in Galloway, southwest Scotland. It describes the context of the library and key features of this borrowing data, including the finding that forty-one Walter Scott titles accounted for 19 percent of all borrowing in this period. Galloway famously provided the outland setting of Scott's Guy Mannering (1815); this borrowing data enables an alternative view of the region and his influence on it. The article argues that readers at the Wigtown library were encountering an expansive network of "thickly" described localities through Scott.
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Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.
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