Scott-land

The Man Who Invented a Nation

Scott-land
Stuart Kelly
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
3 Jun 2021 UK
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9781846975646
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His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh' s city centre. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott, and, although Stuart Kelly will offer insights into Scott' s works and biography, this is emphatically not a conventional literary biography, nor is it a critical study. Partly a surreptitious autobiography - Stuart Kelly was born near Abbotsford - his examination of Scott' s legacy and character come to change his own thoughts on writing, reviewing, being Scottish, and being human.
' A lovely piece of work - the best book on Scott, indeed, since Edwin Muir' s Scott and Scotland' -- Andrew O' Hagan ' Kelly engagingly assesses Scott' s various works and insightfully sets Scott in his context' * Independent * ' In a smart, refreshingly uncynical book, Kelly examines Scott, Scotland and himself in an intelligent, lively analysis of a great small country' -- Ian Finlayson * The Times *
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 was the Literary Editor of Scotland on Sunday and is now a freelance critic and writer.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781846975646
Published: 3 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Birlinn
Publisher: Birlinn General
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 304

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