TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Walter
AU  - Alexander,J.H.
AU  - Wood,G A M
TI  - Quentin Durward
T2  - Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels : EEWN
SN  - 9780748605798
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; FOREWORD --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; GENERAL INTRODUCTION --; QUENTIN DURWARD --; Volume I --; Volume II --; Volume III --; ESSAY ON THE TEXT --; 1. THE GENESIS OF QUENTIN DURWARD --; 2. THE COMPOSITION OF QUENTIN DURWARD --; 3. LATER EDITIONS --; 4. THE PRESENT TEXT --; EMENDATION LIST --; END-OF-LINE HYPHENS --; HISTORICAL NOTE --; EXPLANATORY NOTES --; GLOSSARY --; Map; restricted access
N2  - GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748605798);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 DescriptionQuentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. He knows little and understands less, but Scott represents his ignorance and naiveté as useful to 'the most sagacious prince in Europe' who needs servants motivated solely by the desire for coin and credit and lacking any interest in France which would interfere with the execution of his political aims. In Quentin Durward Scott studies the first modern state in the process of destroying the European feudal system.By far the most important of Scott's sources for Quentin Durward is the splendid Memoirs of Philippe de Comines. Comines, who has more than a walk-on role in the novel itself, was trusted councillor of Charles the Bold of Burgundy until 1472, when Louis XI persuaded him to enter his service. Scott's contrasting portraits of Louis and Charles, crafty king and fiery duke, essentially derives from Comines, whose memoirs are generally regarded as the first example of modern analytical history rather than chronicle. But it is as story that Quentin Durward succeeds, and it is one of Scott's most absorbing tales."
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474433013
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