Author: James Clarkson Corson Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Clarendon Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 726
Book Description
Notes and Index to Sir Herbert Grierson's Edition of the Letters of Sir Walter Scott
Author: James Clarkson Corson Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Clarendon Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 724
Book Description
Notes and Index to Sir Herbert Grierson's Edition of the Letters of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780140436587 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 548
Book Description
"Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!" Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a bitter power struggle between the noble King Richard and his evil and scheming brother John. The first of Scott's novels to address a purely English subject, Ivanhoe is set in a highly romanticized medieval world of tournaments and sieges, chivalry and adventure where dispossessed Saxons are pitted against their Norman overlords, and where the historical and fictional seamlessly merge. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198037910 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that it could not construct a politics for a changing world. Possible Scotlands disagrees. It argues that the tales Scott told, however romanticized, also provided for a national future. They do not tell the story of a Scotland lost in time and lacking value. Instead they open up a narrative space where the nation is always imaginable. This book reads across Scott's complex characters and plots, his many personae, his interventions in his nation's nineteenth-century politics, to reveal the author as an energetic producer of literary and national culture working to prevent a simple or singular message. Indeed, Scott invites readers into his texts to develop multiple and forward-looking interpretations of a Scotland always in formation. Scott's texts and his nation are alive in their constant retelling. Scott was an author for Scotland's new times.
Author: James Clarkson Corson![Notes and Index to Sir Herbert Grierson's Edition of the Letters of Sir Walter Scott [Review] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/xg5CcgAACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Donald A. Low![Notes and index to Sir Herbert [John Clifford] Grierson's edition of the letters of Sir Walter Scott PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/3YNutAEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: James Clarkson Corson![Notes and index to Sir Herbert [John Clifford] Grierson's edition of the letters of Sir Walter Scott PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/hRGimgEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: James Clarkson Corson
Author: James Clarkson Corson
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher