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The Antiquary / Walter Scott, David Hewitt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels : EEWNPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (542 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748605378
  • 9781474433051
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- THE ANTIQUARY -- ADVERTISEMENT -- VOLUME I -- VOLUME II -- VOLUME III -- ESSAY ON THE TEXT -- EMENDATION LIST -- END-OF-LINE HYPHENS -- HISTORICAL NOTE -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- GLOSSARY
Summary: 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 DescriptionThe third of the Waverley Novels is dominated by two old men, Jonathan Oldbuck (the Antiquary of the title) and the beggar Edie Ochiltree. Together they apply their knowledge of the past to sort out the confusion of the present, and in doing so restore the fortunes of ancient houses. This was Scott’s favourite among his novels, and presents a quizzical and amusing view of the profession of history and, by implication, of Scott’s own practice as writer and collector.
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Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- THE ANTIQUARY -- ADVERTISEMENT -- VOLUME I -- VOLUME II -- VOLUME III -- ESSAY ON THE TEXT -- EMENDATION LIST -- END-OF-LINE HYPHENS -- HISTORICAL NOTE -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- GLOSSARY

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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 DescriptionThe third of the Waverley Novels is dominated by two old men, Jonathan Oldbuck (the Antiquary of the title) and the beggar Edie Ochiltree. Together they apply their knowledge of the past to sort out the confusion of the present, and in doing so restore the fortunes of ancient houses. This was Scott’s favourite among his novels, and presents a quizzical and amusing view of the profession of history and, by implication, of Scott’s own practice as writer and collector.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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