Peter Garside (University of Edinburgh) will be presenting his paper, ‘Scott As A European Poet: On Editing His Shorter Verse’, at 5.30pm on Monday, 30 April 2017. The talk will take place in the Cardiff University’s John Percival Building, Room 0.31, and will be followed by a wine reception.
Abstract
The talk will concern preparation for a new scholarly edition of Scott’s Shorter Verse, due to appear next year as the second volume to be published in the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry (EEWSP). It will focus on the large proportions of items in this new volume with strong European connections, either in representing translations or reworking of foreign-language texts or more broadly reflecting Scott’s transnational concerns. Consideration will also be given to Scott’s lifelong preoccupation with political affairs on a European scale, and more especially resistance to the forces of Napoleonic ‘universalism’. Lastly, it will offer some tentative suggestions as to how this might (or might not) relate to current debates concerning Brexit.
About the speaker
Peter Garside was a founder member of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research and its first Director from 1997 to 2004. He has helped provide a number of bibliographical resources relating to British fiction, including The English Novel 1770–1829 (2000) and the online database British Fiction, 1800–1829 (2004). He has edited a number of novels belonging to this period, including Scott’s Waverley(2007), and is the co-editor of English and British Fiction 1750–1820 (2015). He is currently Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
