James Kerr
Fiction against History
Scott as Storyteller
Paperback Engels 2007 9780521033565Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Walter Scott was acutely conscious of the fictionality of his historical novels. In this 1989 book, James Kerr reads the Waverley novels as a grand fictional project constructed around the relationship between the language of fiction and historical reality. We can see throughout Scott's novels a tension between the romancer, recasting the events of the past in accordance with recognizably literary logics, and the historian, presenting an accurate account of the past. This contradiction, reflected in Scott's generic mixture of romance and realism, remains unresolved, even in the most self-conscious of his works. It is in this interplay of fiction and history that Professor Kerr identifies the rich complexity of the Waverley novels.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780521033565
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:156
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
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Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements; A note on citations of the Waverley novels; 1. The historical novel and the production of the past; 2. The reemplotment of rebellion: Waverley and Old Mortality; 3. Historical fable and political fantasy: The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor; 4. Redgauntlet: the historical romance as metafiction; Notes; Index.
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