...Marmion is a medieval romance narrative, the action of which takes place in the forty days leading up to and including the Battle of Flodden. The plot is driven by the villainous deeds of the fictional English Knight Lord Marmion. Scott’s contemporary audience struggled to accept...

... is pared down: suggestive, allusive, vague but threatening, which is how the barely glimpsed alien is portrayed in the film. Alien Fiske John Fish Stanley Scott Ridley Soderbergh Steven Weaver Sigourney Lem Stanislaw Tarkovsky Andrei Marx Karl Fisher Elizabeth Hurt John Le Guin Ursula Conrad...

... to use it for the more profitable business of sheep-rearing. As a result of these ‘clearances’, broad swathes of land were left depopulated and the displaced inhabitants forced into poverty. The chapter then describes the works of James Macpherson and Sir Walter Scott, and discusses modern Gaelic...

...This chapter introduces Walter Scott and the links between sudden political change and ideas of modernisation, liberalisation and civilisation, looking first at the issues of modernisation that emerged during and after the French Revolution. It reveals that the historical and social vision...

...This chapter addresses the use of location substitution by Hollywood in Iceland. Ranging from films as diverse as Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus (2012) and Lee Tamihori’s James Bond vehicle Die Another Day (2002), Nordfjörd considers how...

... to haunting and repetition experienced by the sufferer as (to use Melville's term) 'tranced grief'. These narratives may be contrasted with Walter Scott's versions of the historical romance, which look to narrate some kind of historical resolution to the conflicts of the past. In this respect, genealogical...

... Luce Paasonen Susanna Shimizu Celine Parreñas The Hunger Scott Pollock Griselda Hard Core Williams Williams Linda embodied simulation Harman Graham lekton lektonic 25th Hour Lee Barthes Roland disgust mirror neurons goosebumps The Handmaiden (Chan-wook Park, 2016) romance (genre; lesbian...

...Sarah Scott’s novel Millenium Hall (1762) gathers bodies, spaces, and other objects of play – a collection of women’s narratives, their books and their gifts. Scott layers and arranges these toyish things in order to encourage readers to reevaluate objects, both their trajectories...

...Macrone recounts Scott's family background, his law studies, and his marriage, with a reminiscence of Scott as a boy supplied by an anonymous schoolfriend. Chambers Robert Scott Walter father Allan George Cunningham Allan Erskine John Scott Elizabeth Rutherford Weir William Byron Lord Moore...

... emerges as a construct of narrative and design – as something which possesses creative and intellectual coherence but which explicitly opens itself up to question, to ‘challenge’. Culloden heritage Highland history Jacobitism language McQueen Alexander past Prestonpans 1745 Scott Walter tartan...

...This chapter argues that it is entirely credible that the heady collision of Sir Walter Scott, King George IV, and European Romanticism in Edinburgh in 1822 explains much about tartanry's sentimental vulgarity and its weird mixture of ostentation and supplication. It observes however that what...

...This chapter determines why it took till the 1970s for W. R. Scott's notion of a Scottish Enlightenment to gain general acknowledgment and why, when that acknowledgment did come, it was in the context of an insistence on the failure of Scotland's nineteenth-century culture. It opines...

... time. Adventures of Quentin Durward The 1955 film chivalry Gladiator 2000 film Hollywood Ivanhoe 1952 film King Richard and the Crusaders 1954 film Norman Saxons Scotland Scott Ridley Scott Walter Talisman The novel by Sir Walter Scott authenticity Braveheart 1995 film Burgoyne Robert...

...This chapter describes the friendship, concentrating on the sentimentalism of the period and its relation to a notion of ‘imperial recoil’. It also evaluates the place of friendship in the poetics of Phillis Wheatley and the state imagining of Sarah Scott. The protean vocabulary of friendship...

... to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travel literature. With regard to the feature film, it follows the traditions of Scott and romanticism, the movement in the 1920s towards Barrie and domestic melodrama, and the perennial return to the comic characters of Scottish music hall. The chapter addresses...

..., repetitious and complacent, a colourful fish in a small Scottish pond. After his death he was called the last great Scotsman, a tribute which was paid to Sir Walter Scott that seemed excessive and a little odd in implicit comparison, though at the time it signaled a degree of cultural anxiety. Aytoun W E...

... source for The Siege of Malta is the history of the Knights by the Abbé de Vertot. Walter Scott's fictionalising impulse continues even in the final part of his narrative, when he is following Vertot more closely. Siege of Malta Walter Scott Abbé de Vertot Military Order Don Manuel...

...Just before leaving Naples, Walter Scott resumed his Journal, which had been in abeyance for several weeks, and narrated the story which was to become the primary basis of his last piece of fiction, Bizarro. While Scott clearly based his novella on this oral account, he also...

... investigates the timber roof structure of George Heriot Hospital’s Chapel in Edinburgh, a seventeenth-century common rafter roof with later alterations, and compares it with earlier and later examples, such as Parliament Hall and Tron Kirk by John Scott, in order to discuss the development of Scottish roof...

... literature on the Continent, their knowledge of English generally was limited or non-existent. Thus, libretti were routinely based on secondary and tertiary resources. For example, adaptations of Walter Scott’s works created for the French dramatic stages offered convenient models. Operas based...