An Old English Ecological Aesthetic: Building a National Landscape History in Scott’s Waverley

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2022.0026

S. Nystrom

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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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古英国生态美学:斯科特韦弗利国家景观史的建构

摘要：通过将沃尔特·斯科特的《韦弗利》与同时代的园艺和建筑模式书籍进行对话，本文揭示了古英国的生态美学，一种建立在英国气候要求哥特式的观念之上的景观风格。在这样做的过程中，它通过揭示这种风格是如何被动员起来调解环境和社会对它作为英国一部分意味着什么的担忧，来追求对韦弗利的新解读。最终，通过强调斯科特在英国生态管理中的作用，它揭示了模式书是如何利用斯科特的美学来想象一个统一的景观——从而想象一个团结的国家——以及他的小说是如何批评这种行为的。

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期刊介绍： 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.