Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus : Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous / Walter Scott; ed. by J. H. Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Walter, Author.

Contributor:

Alexander, J. H., Editor.

Series:

Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels : EEWN

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (776 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Between 1829 and 1833 the first complete edition of Scott's fiction appeared, in 48 volumes issued one a month, each illustrated with two engravings, and with introductions and notes by Scott himself. The Magnum Opus, as it was familiarly called, was a project which aimed to reduce the enormous debt of over £126,000 which landed on Scott during the financial crisis of 1825-26, but it was much more than an exercise in book-making. Scott's introductions are semi-autobiographical essays in which he muses on his own art and the circumstances which gave rise to each of his works of fiction. His notes illustrate his text, sometimes with simple glosses, sometimes by "ations from historical sources, but most strikingly with further narratives which parallel rather than explain incidents and situations in the fiction.These volumes constitute the first systematic representation of Scott's contributions to his last great edition, the edition which defined the final shape of Scott's fiction for the nineteenth century. They conclude the publication of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and as they include addenda and corrigenda covering the whole 28 volumes of Scott's fiction in the EEWN, they are an indispensable conclusion to the set. But above all they illustrate the parabolic imagination of the man who made the historical novel an intellectual force.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

IVANHOE

THE MONASTERY

THE ABBOT

KENILWORTH

THE PIRATE

THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL

PEVERIL OF THE PEAK

QUENTIN DURWARD

SAINT RONAN’S WELL

REDGAUNTLET

THE BETROTHED

THE TALISMAN

WOODSTOCK

CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE

THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH

ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN

COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS

THE SHORTER FICTION

EMENDATION LIST

END-OF-LINE HYPHENS

EXPLANATORY NOTES

ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Feb 2025)

ISBN:

9781474472388

1474472389

OCLC:

1504505662