Walter Scott : : The Making of the Novelist / / Jane Millgate.

Between 1814 and 1819 Walter Scott published a remarkable sequence of eight historical and regional novels, beginning with Waverley and culminating in The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose. In the process he made the Author of Waverley into the most successful and famous novelist in the w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1987
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (223 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Textual Note
  • 1. Editorial Strategies: The Minstrelsy and the Lay
  • 2. Variations on a Method: Marmion to Rokeby
  • 3. Waverley: Romance as Education
  • 4. Guy Mannering: A Tale of Private Life
  • 5. The Antiquary: Reading the Text of the Past
  • 6. The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality: Ending Right
  • 7. Rob Roy: The Limits of Frankness
  • 8. The Heart of Midlothian: The Pattern Reversed
  • 9. The Bride ofLammermoor and A Legend ofMontrose: The End of the Beginning
  • Notes
  • Index