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Cooper and Scott in the Anglophone Literary Field: The Pioneers, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, and the Effects of Provinciality

This essay historicizes the emergence of the Romantic-era ideology of the aesthetic through an analysis of American and Scottish literary strategies for recognition in England. The effects of provinciality in a London-centered literary field, I argue, led James Fenimore Cooper and Walter Scott to project cross-cultural exchange as independent from a divisive and nationalized political world. Attending to this powerful fantasy locates a new genealogy of bourgeois aesthetic theory in the uneven distribution of cultural capital, transatlantic publishing practices, and literary form.