Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1DXV
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Walter Scott
The Novels Of Walter Scott
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Waverley
Walter Scott
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UFL:31262041286641
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Secret Leaves
Judith Wilt
Author : Judith Wilt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226901619
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Waverley Novels
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0461720752
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Quentin Durward
Walter Scott
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : France
ISBN : WISC:89005396296
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Walter Scott's Books
J.H. Alexander
Author : J.H. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351814942
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Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question of Scott's 'circumbendibus' style head on, suggesting that it is actually one of the most exciting aspects of his fiction: indeed, what Ian Duncan has called the 'elaborately literary narrative', at first sight a barrier, is in a sense what the novels are primarily 'about'. The book aims to show how inventive, witty, and entertaining Scott's richly allusive style is; how he keeps his varied readership on board with his own inexhaustible variety; and how he allows proponents of a wide range of positions to have their say, using a detached, ironic, but never cynical narrative voice to undermine the more rigid and inhumane rhetoric. The Introduction outlines this approach and sets the book in the context of earlier and current Scott criticism. It also deals with some practical issues, including forms of reference and the distinctive use of the term 'Authorial'. The four chapters are designed to zoom in progressively from the general to the particular. 'Resources' explores the printed material available to Scott in his library and gives an overview of the way he uses it in his fiction. 'Style' confronts objections to the 'circumbendibus' Scott and shows how his Ciceronian style with its penchant for polysyllables enables him to embrace a wide range of rhetoric relayed in a detached but not cynical Authorial voice. 'Strategies' explores how he keeps his very wide audience on board by a complex bonding between characters, readers, and Author, and stresses the extraordinary variety of exuberant inventiveness with which he handles intertextual allusions. 'Mottoes' examines the most remarkable of Scott's intertextual devices, the chapter epigraphs, bringing into play the approaches developed in the previous chapters. The brief concluding 'Envoi' moves out again to the widest possible perspective, suggesting how readers should now be able to move on to, or return to, the novels and the critical conversation, with an appreciation of the central importance of the ludic for an appreciation of Scott in a world once again threatened by inhumane and humorless rigidities.
St Ronan's Well
Sir Walter Scott
Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Country life
ISBN : OXFORD:N11496129
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Kenilworth
Walter Scott
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : ZHBL:ZHBL-00069506
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Ivanhoe, A Romance Annotated
Walter Scott
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798577461560
Ivanhoe, A Romance Annotated by Walter Scott Pdf
Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in late 1819 in three volumes and subtitled A Romance. At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away from fairly realistic novels set in Scotland in the comparatively recent past, to a somewhat fanciful depiction of medieval England.It has proved to be one of the best known and most influential of Scott's novels.Ivanhoe is set in 12th-century England with colourful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial and divisions between Jews and Christians.It has been credited for increasing interest in romance and medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the Middle Ages", while Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin made similar assertions of Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival, based primarily on the publication of this novel.It has also had an important influence on popular perceptions of Richard the Lionheart, King John and Robin Hood.
The Black Dwarf. A Legend of Montrose
Sir Walter Scott
Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5325083326
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Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
Fiona Robertson
Author : Fiona Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748670208
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott by Fiona Robertson Pdf
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
The Novels of Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 134381409X
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The novels of sir Walter Scott, with all his introductions and notes
sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected])
Author : sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590890041
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Walter Scott and Short Fiction
Daniel Cook
Author : Daniel Cook
Publisher : EUP
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1474487130
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A study of Walter Scott's short stories, novella and tales This book is the first extensive study of seventeen works of short fiction by one of Scotland's most influential writers of all time. It examines the author's only collection of short stories, Chronicles of the Canongate, periodical and gift-book pieces, and interpolated tales that appeared in the novels. Through careful readings of, amongst others, the Highland stories ('The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers'), his Indian novella (The Surgeon's Daughter), Gothic keepsakes ('My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' and 'The Tapestried Chamber'), and his Calabrian tale Bizarro, this book offers new insights into the production and consumption of short stories, novellas, tales, sketches and other forms of fiction in the early nineteenth century and beyond. Daniel Cook is Reader in English and Associate Director of the Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830 (2013) and Reading Swift's Poetry (2020). He has edited essay collections including The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2015; pb 2018) and a forthcoming anthology in the Oxford World's Classics series titled Scottish Literature, 1730-1830.
Walter Scott At 250
Caroline McCracken-Flesher,Matthew Wickman
Author : Caroline McCracken-Flesher,Matthew Wickman
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474429874
Walter Scott At 250 by Caroline McCracken-Flesher,Matthew Wickman Pdf
At 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as present. His times were times of crisis. Scott, then, has much to share in the experience, narration, anticipation and response to change as a condition of life - a condition our era, with its existential challenges to climate, to public health, to civilization knows only too well. In Scott at 250, major scholars foreground the author as theorist of tomorrow - as the surveyor of the complexities of the present who also gazes, as we do, toward an anxious and hopeful future.