Count Robert of Paris / / Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Scott, Walter,; Alexander, J. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels : EEWN
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)

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.The Edinburgh Edition offers you:A clean, corrected textTextual historiesExplanatory notesVerbal changes from the first-edition textFull glossariesTitle DescriptionCount Robert of Paris, condemned by Scott’s printer as ‘altogether a failure’, was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart , and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated. This edition, the first to have returned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs, realises Scott’s original intentions. Scott’s last full novel has many roughnesses, but it also challenges the susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other and in that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who condemned it.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS -- Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- Appendix to the Text -- Essay on the Text -- Emendation List -- End-of-line Hyphens -- Historical Note -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossary