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Heart of Mid-Lothian
Av Walter Scott, Alison Lumsden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2856 kr
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle—Scott’s only chronicle—which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. It is the most complex of all Scott’s …
Pirate
Av Walter Scott, Mark Weinstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2102 kr
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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 …
Peveril of the Peak
Av Walter Scott, Alison Lumsden
Inbunden, 2007
2437 kr
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‘Here is a plot without a drop of blood; and all the elements of a romance, without its conclusion’, comments the King towards the end of Scott’s longest, and arguably most intriguing, novel. Set against the backdrop of the Popish Plot to overturn Charles II, Peveril of the Peak explores the …
Woodstock
Av Walter Scott, Tony Inglis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2183 kr
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Woodstock opens in farce, yet it is one of Scott's darkest novels. It deals with revolution, to Scott the most disturbing of all subjects: 'it appears that every step we made towards liberty, has but brought us in view of more terrific perils'. Written during the financial crisis which led to his …
Reliquiae Trotcosienses
or, The Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns
Av Walter Scott, Gerard Carruthers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2437 kr
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Reliquiae Trotcosienses was one of Scott’s last works, and, after his death, was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher. Although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905, this is the first complete edition, and has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated in the library at …
Walter Scott and the Limits of Language
E-bok, 2010
469 kr
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Scott''s startlingly contemporary approach to theories of language and the creative impact of this on his work are explored in this new study. Alison Lumsden examines the linguistic diversity and creative playfulness of Scott''s fiction and suggests that an evolving scepticism towards the …
Walter Scott and the Limits of Language
Häftad, 2027
352 kr
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In this book, Alison Lumsden examines the linguistic diversity and creative playfulness of Scott's fiction and suggests that an evolving scepticism towards the communicative capacities of language runs throughout his writing. Lumsden re-examines this scepticism in relation to Scottish Enlightenment …
