Walter Scott at 250

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Shortened Forms of Reference; Introduction: Walter Scott at 250 - and Counting, Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Matthew Wickman; 1. Temporality and Historical Fiction Reading in Scott, Ina Ferris; 2. 'I bide my time': History and the Future Anterior in The Bride of Lammermoor, Penny Fielding; 3. Scott's Anachronisms, Ian Duncan; 4. Scott, the Novel, and Capital in the Nineteenth Century, Anthony Jarrells; 5. The General Undertaker: Scott's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte and the Prehistory of Neoliberalism, Celeste Langan; 6. Scott and the Art of Surplusage: Excess in the Narrative Poems, Alison Lumsden; 7. Performing History: Theatricality, Gender, the Early Historical Novel and Scott, Fiona Price; 8. Where we Never Were: Women at Walter Scott's Abbotsford, Caroline McCracken-Flesher; 9. Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene, Susan Oliver; 10. Redgauntlet: Speculation in History, Speculation in Nature, Matthew Wickman; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She runs the University of Wyoming in Scotland program and directs UW's Center for Global Studies. Her books include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford, 2005), The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Novels (Oxford, 2012), the edited volumes Culture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell, 2007), Scotland As Science Fiction (Bucknell, 2012), and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (MLA, 2013). Her edition of Stevenson's Kidnapped is forthcoming from EUP.
Matthew Wickman is Professor of English at Brigham Young University and Founding Director of the BYU Humanities Center. He is the author of Literature after Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Pennsylvania, 2007), and many articles on Scottish literary and intellectual history and in other fields across the interdisciplinary humanities.