Bride - history/plot/fiction - Scott's distance and relationship to the family - originality? - footnotes and references to real history - relationship between 1706 1nd 1818 - memory becoming history and its relationship to textual sources - Scott as avatar

what would be great to come out of this project?

the range of Scott's production - variety

themes - fact/fiction relationships

variety and modes of emplotment - how he turns sources/evidence/readings/library holdings/experience (as magistrate) into text

visuality in Scott - descriptions - use of illustration - settings

how Scott is facing with others questions of authorship and authenticity

see my articles about antiquarian history and visualty/writing/illustration engagement with the remains of the past

oral epic and its translation into written text

the antiqurain materiality of Scott's life

http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks/144

http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks/141

http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks/140

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The Bride of Lammermoor

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Scott - Borders:

Definition of a topic + hypothesis/proposal

topic --> Scott's relationship with land, place, locale (page - statement of topic --> see Scott Project Intro)

hypothesis/proposal --> Scott is working at the end of a tradition of "chorography" (page - definition of proposals --> see Project Proposals)

--> Scott is actively reworking the antiquarian genre (of chor.) in the circumstances of late 18th C cultural politics

Survery of literature covered

-annotated bibliography

Primary and Secondary Sources (pages on indiv works + category --> see Primary Sources and Secondary Sources)

Themes (+ definitions) - (pages for each --> start from Themes)

• Antiquary
• Chorography - writing on the land
• Authenticitiy - and historical "fiction"
• Landscape and Land - place, place/event, visuality

(Seperate pages: materials/galleries/pdfs --> Ancillary Documents and Galleries)