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The Talisman (Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels) - Hardcover

Scott, Sir Walter; Garside, Peter; Hewitt, David

 
9780748605828: The Talisman (Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels)
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ISBN 10: 0748605827 ISBN 13: 9780748605828
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2010

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Going 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 text* Textual histories* Explanatory notes* Verbal changes from the first-edition text* Full glossariesTitle DescriptionThe second volume in the Tales of the Crusaders, The Talisman is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189-92). Scott constructs a story of chivalric action, apparently adopting a medieval romance view of the similarities in the values of both sides. But disguise is the leading theme of the tale: it is not just that characters frequently wear clothing that conceals their identity, but that professions and cultures hide their true nature. In this novel the Christian leaders are divided by a factious criminality, and are contrasted to the magnanimity and decisiveness of Saladin, the leader of

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sir Walter Scott, was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics and include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

J. B. Ellis is a retired lecturer in English Literature, the University of Edinburgh.

J. H. Alexander is Reader Emeritus in English at the University of Aberdeen.

Peter Garside is an established scholar and experienced textual editor, well known in his field, and whose previous publications include critical editions of Scott, Hogg and Lockhart, all published by Edinburgh University Press. He is also the author of a string of articles interrogating Lockhart’s treatment of key incidents in the Life, the latest of which is ‘Scott’s Last Words’ [Studies in Scottish Literature, 47/2 (Fall 2021), 25-40].

David Hewitt was formerly Regius Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, for which he edited Rob Roy (EUP, 2008), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (with Alison Lumsden; EUP, 2004), Redgauntlet (with G. A. M. Wood; EUP, 1997) and The Antiquary (EUP, 1995).



J. H. Alexander is Reader Emeritus in English at the University of Aberdeen P. D. Garside is Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at the University of Edinburgh David Hewitt is Regius Chalmers Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748605827
ISBN 13 
9780748605828
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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