Walter Scott and short fiction / Daniel Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Daniel, 1981- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832--Criticism and interpretation.

Scott, Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This is an extensive study of seventeen works of short fiction by one of Scotland's most influential writers of all time. It examines the author's only collection of short stories, Chronicles of the Canongate, periodical and gift-book pieces, and interpolated tales that appeared in the novels. Through careful readings of, amongst others, the Highland stories ('The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers'), his Indian novella ('The Surgeon's Daughter'), Gothic keepsakes ('My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' and 'The Tapestried Chamber'), and his Calabrian tale Bizarro, this book offers new insights into the production and consumption of short stories, novellas, tales, sketches and other forms of fiction in the early nineteenth century and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Scott and Shorter Fiction

2. Wandering Tales

3. Croftangry’s Narrative

4. The Highland Stories

5. An Indian Novella

6. Gothic Keepsakes

7. Fantastic and Bizarro

Afterword: The Modern Scottish Short Story

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-8716-5

1-3995-0190-9

1-4744-8715-7

OCLC:

1252420778