Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter

SUSAN OLIVER is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge and Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex.  From September 2007 she will be Lecturer in Long-Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford, UK.

• List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements List of Maps Introduction: North, South, East-and West: The Strangeness of 'Debateable Lands' Collecting Ballads and Resisting Radical Energies: Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Scott's Narrative Poetry: The Borders and the Highland Margins Crossing 'Dark Barriers': Byron, Europe and the Near East in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Cantos 1 and 2 Byron's Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts Bibliography Index

Winner of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. For more information see the prize's website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/misc/medals/crawshay.html'Susan Oliver has written a very fine book on the poetry of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron which puts to compelling use the concept of the border as a geographical, political and metaphorical site of 'Cultural encounter'...Oliver's chapters on Scott and Byron are written with a level of clarity, conviction and energy which makes them a pleasure to read.' - Paul M. Curtis, Romanticism