The Abbot / / Walter Scott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Scott, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels : EEWN
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (554 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748605750);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 DescriptionThe Abbot concludes the fiction begun in The Monastery. Scott follows the fortunes of young Roland Graeme as he emerges from rural obscurity to become an attendant of Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity in Lochleven Castle. Roland's part in Mary's escape from the Castle is excitingly narrated, and Mary herself is vividly characterised in captivity, in her brief period of freedom, and in her final defeat. Based on the first edition, this new text restores, from Scott's manuscript and from the evidence of early American editions set from proof sheets at different stages, nearly 2000 authorial readings hitherto omitted. It has also been possible for the first time, on the evidence of history, to make coherent the family relationships in the novel."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- EDINBURGH EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- THE ABBOT -- Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- Essay on the Text -- Emendation List -- End-of-line Hyphens -- Historical Note -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossary -- Maps