The Edinburgh edition of the Waverley novels / editor-in-chief, David Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.

Contributor:

Hewitt, David, 1942-

Weinstein, Mark A.

Standardized Title:

Waverley novels (Edinburgh ed.)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

25 volumes in 30 : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New York : Columbia University Press, c1993-2012.

Summary:

Set at the end of the reign of James VI and I, "The Fortunes of Nigel" is among Walter Scott's richest creations in its political insight, range of characterization, and linguistic virtuosity.

Well versed in the political literature of the period, Scott draws a detailed picture of London in the early seventeenth century while charting the effects of the Scottish influx into the English capital, the ambitions and fears of the newcomers, and the suspicion they aroused. The complex web of political (and sexual) intrigue and financial double-dealings are traced with a master's hand.

Steeped in Jacobean drama, this tale shows Scott revelling in the linguistic riches of the age. Previous editions have obscured his virtuosity (as seen in a dazzlingly proto-Joycean monologue by a Greenwich barber), but painstaking examination of the manuscript and proofs for this new edition allows the full vigor of Scott's achievement to be savored for the first time.

Contents:

v.1. Waverley / edited by P.D. Garside

v. 2. Guy Mannering / edited by P.D. Garside

v. 3. The antiquary / edited by David Hewitt

v. 4a. The black dwarf / edited by P.D. Garside

v. 4b. The tale of old mortality / edited by Douglas Mack

v. 5. Rob Roy / edited by David Hewitt

v. 6. The heart of Mid-Lothian / edited by David Hewitt and Alison Lumsden

v. 7a. The bride of Lammermoor / edited by J.H. Alexander

v. 7b. A legend of the wars of Montrose / edited by J.H. Alexander

v. 8. Ivanhoe / edited by Graham Tulloch

v. 9. The monastery / edited by Penny Fielding

v. 10. The abbot / edited by Christopher Johnson

v. 11. Kenilworth / edited by J.H. Alexander

v. 12. The Pirate

v. 13. The fortunes of Nigel / edited by Frank Jordan

v. 14. Peveril of the Peak / edited by Alison Lumsden

v. 15. Quentin Durward

v. 16. Saint Ronan's well / edited by Mark Weinstein

v. 17. Redgauntlet / edited by G.A.M. Wood with David Hewitt

v. 18a. The betrothed / edited by J.B. Ellis with J.H. Alexander and David Hewitt

v. 18b. The talisman / edited by J.B. Ellis ... [et al.]

v. 19. Woodstock / edited by Tony Inglis ... [et al.]

v. 20. Chronicles of the Canongate

v. 21. The fair maid of Perth / edited by Andrew Hook and Donald Mackenzie

v.22. Anne of Geierstein / edited by J.H. Alexander

v. 23a. Count Robert of Paris / edited by J.H. Alexander

v. 23b. Castle dangerous / edited by J.H. Alexander

v. 24. The shorter fiction / edited by Graham Tulloch and Judy King

v.25. Introduction and notes from The magnum opus. A. Waverly to A legend of the wars of Montrose / edited by J.H. Alexander with others

B. Ivanhoe to Castle dangerous / edited by J.H. Alexander with others

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0748605371

0231103964

9780748605699

0748605711

023110572X

OCLC:

34651203