Walter Scott : the making of the novelist / Jane Millgate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millgate, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832--Fictional works.

Scott, Walter.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 world; by chooseing to remain anonymous, however, Scott deliberately separated this new achievemtn from the fame he had already gained as editor and poet.This study of the first and major phase of Scott's career as a novelist reconsiders his act of secession from his own literary past and examines the interconnections between Scott the antiquarian and editor, Scott the romantic poet, and Scott the novelist.

Contents:

""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 of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose: The End of the Beginning""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-05622-0

9786612056222

1-4426-8321-X

OCLC:

944177248