{"title":"An Old English Ecological Aesthetic: Building a National Landscape History in Scott’s Waverley","authors":"S. Nystrom","doi":"10.1353/srm.2022.0026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By placing Walter Scott’s Waverley in dialogue with contemporaneous horticultural and architectural pattern books, this essay uncovers the Old English ecological aesthetic, a landscape style founded on the notion that the British climate demands the Gothic. In doing so, it pursues a new reading of Waverley by revealing how this style was mobilized to mediate environmental and social concerns over what it meant to be part of Britain. Ultimately, by highlighting Scott’s role in Britain’s ecological management, it reveals how pattern books used Scott’s aesthetic to imagine a unified landscape–thus, a unified nation– and how his fiction critiques such acts.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","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.2022.0026","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:By placing Walter Scott’s Waverley in dialogue with contemporaneous horticultural and architectural pattern books, this essay uncovers the Old English ecological aesthetic, a landscape style founded on the notion that the British climate demands the Gothic. In doing so, it pursues a new reading of Waverley by revealing how this style was mobilized to mediate environmental and social concerns over what it meant to be part of Britain. Ultimately, by highlighting Scott’s role in Britain’s ecological management, it reveals how pattern books used Scott’s aesthetic to imagine a unified landscape–thus, a unified nation– and how his fiction critiques such acts.
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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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