Local Explanations: Editing a Sense of Place in Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

This essay examines Walter Scott’s engagement with concepts of place and regionality in the ballad collection Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-3), revealing ways in which the editor represented and re-imagined the ballads, their associated sense of place and their physical settings.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lucy Macrae
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2014-01-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/690

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