Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-322) and index
Portable monuments -- Procreativity: remediation and Rob Roy -- Re-scripting Ivanhoe -- Re-enacting Ivanhoe -- Locating memory: Abbotsford -- Commemorating Scott: 'That imperial man' -- How long was immortality? -- Epilogue: cultural memory, cultural amnesia
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"Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was once a household name, but is now largely forgotten. This book explores how Scott's work became an all pervasive point of reference for cultural memory and collective identity iin the nineteenth century, and why it no longer has this role."--Back cover