Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Sir Walter ScottPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513285505
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Originally published in 1890, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott spans seven eventful years of the author’s life where he attempts to reclaim his good standing. It’s a revealing look at the highs and lows of one of the greatest novelists of all-time.The Journal of Sir Walter Scott starts in 1825 when the author is 54 years old. It recounts a seven-year stretch of financial strain caused by failed business ventures and defaulted loans. Scott details his struggle to maintain his dignity, while losing his status and possessions. He recounts personal traumas linked to the death of his wife in 1826, as well as his own declining health. It is a riveting exploration of the author’s final years. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott is considered a masterpiece of candid writing. Scott bares his soul as he navigates several unexpected obstacles. In the midst of his anguish, he maintains a sincerity that makes for a refreshing and reflexive read. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott is both modern and readable.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: Volume 2
Author: Walter ScottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108064302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
As one review observed, Scott's 1825-32 journal, published in 1890, 'shows us the man in prosperity and in adversity'.
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 1
Author: Søren KierkegaardPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400874327
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
I would like to write a novel in which the main character would be a man who got a pair of glasses, one lens of which reduced images as powerfully as an oxyhydrogen microscope, and the other of which magnified on the same scale, so that he perceived everything relatively. ? A flight of fancy by an aspiring science fiction writer? While it may sound as such, this wistful musing is one of the little-discussed personal reflections of nineteenth-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, whose remarkable journals and notebooks, unpublished during his lifetime, are presented here. The first of an eleven-volume series produced by Copenhagen's Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, this volume is the first English translation and commentary of Kierkegaard's journals based on up-to-date scholarship. It offers new insight into Kierkegaard's inner life. In addition to early drafts of his published works, the journals contain his thoughts on current events and philosophical and theological matters, notes on books he was reading, miscellaneous jottings, and ideas for future literary projects. Kierkegaard wrote his journals in a two-column format, one for his initial entries and the second for the marginal comments he added later. The new edition of the journals reproduces this format and contains photographs of original manuscript pages, as well as extensive scholarly commentary. Translated by leading experts on Kierkegaard, Journals and Notebooks will become the benchmark for all future Kierkegaard scholarship.
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
Author: Fiona RobertsonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748670203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Sir Walter ScottCatalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: John D. KerkeringPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139440985
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
Humphry Davy
Author: Raymond Lamont-BrownPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp.