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