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The Pirate / Alison Lumsden, Walter Scott, Mark Weinstein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels : EEWNPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (607 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748605767
  • 9781474433679
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.7 23
LOC classification:
  • PR5320 .P57 2001
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- THE PIRATE -- Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- ESSAY ON THE TEXT -- 1. THE GENESIS OF THE PIRATE -- 2. THE COMPOSITION OF THE PIRATE -- 3. LATER EDITIONS -- 4. THE PRESENT TEXT -- EMENDATION LIST -- END-OF-LINE HYPHENS -- HISTORICAL NOTE -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- Map
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748605767);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 DescriptionNo historical figures appear in The Pirate, and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those 'corners of time' where an old era is coming to an end, and a new is beginning. The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles the 'Glorious Revolution' actually means the beginning of the cultural dominance of Scotland and the advent of English power.The plot hinges on an illicit relationship, and is driven by dark men twisted by their criminality, an obsessed woman searching for her lost son, and the murderous rivalry of two young men – a family tale which illustrates the uses and abuses of traditional lore, as well as Scott's extraordinary grasp of the literature of the north. Scott draws heavily on the diary he kept on his tour round the lighthouses of Scotland in 1814. In both the diary and the novel he weighs the real need to improve the agricultural methods of this barely subsistence economy against the force of tradition and the human cost of rapid change."
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Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- THE PIRATE -- Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- ESSAY ON THE TEXT -- 1. THE GENESIS OF THE PIRATE -- 2. THE COMPOSITION OF THE PIRATE -- 3. LATER EDITIONS -- 4. THE PRESENT TEXT -- EMENDATION LIST -- END-OF-LINE HYPHENS -- HISTORICAL NOTE -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- Map

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748605767);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 DescriptionNo historical figures appear in The Pirate, and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those 'corners of time' where an old era is coming to an end, and a new is beginning. The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles the 'Glorious Revolution' actually means the beginning of the cultural dominance of Scotland and the advent of English power.The plot hinges on an illicit relationship, and is driven by dark men twisted by their criminality, an obsessed woman searching for her lost son, and the murderous rivalry of two young men – a family tale which illustrates the uses and abuses of traditional lore, as well as Scott's extraordinary grasp of the literature of the north. Scott draws heavily on the diary he kept on his tour round the lighthouses of Scotland in 1814. In both the diary and the novel he weighs the real need to improve the agricultural methods of this barely subsistence economy against the force of tradition and the human cost of rapid change."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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