The Pirate (Waverley Novels, 12, Band 12) - Hardcover

Scott, Walter, Sir; Lumsden, Alison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748605762 ISBN 13: 9780748605767

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2001

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Find Out What Scott Really WroteGoing back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. No historical figures appear in The Pirate, and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those 'corners of time' where an old era is coming to an end, and a new is beginning. The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles the 'Glorious Revolution' actually means the beginning of the cultural dominance of Scotland and the advent of English power.The plot hinges on an illicit relationship, and is driven by dark men twisted by their criminality, an obsessed woman searching for her lost son, and the murderous rivalry of two young men - a family tale which illustrates the uses and abuses of traditional lore, as well as Scott's extraordinary grasp of the literature of the north. Scott draws heavi

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sir Walter Scott, was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics and include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Mark Weinstein is Professor of English Literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Alison Lumsden is a senior lecturer in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen and co-director of the Walter Scott Research Centre. She was for many years research fellow and then General Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and has published on several Scottish authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Nan Shepherd and Louis Grassic Gibbon. She is about to begin work on a scholarly edition of Scott's poetry.

Mark Weinstein is Professor of English Literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Alison Lumsden is Senior Lecturer, Department of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748605762
• ISBN 13: 9780748605767
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 607
• Herausgeber: Weinstein Mark, Lumsden Alison
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