Legitimate Histories
Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 7 April 1994
- ISBN 9780198112242
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 224x142x25 mm
- Weight 549 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Legitimate Histories is an innovative reading of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic. Including analyses of such neglected works as The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, and Woodstock, as well as the more generally known Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, and Redgauntlet, it focuses on questions of narrative authority and historical authenticity.
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Legitimate Histories is an innovative reading of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic.
Most critics have treated these two forms of historical narrative as though they were completely unrelated, but Fiona Robertson's detailed study places Scott's work in the context of Gothic fictions from Walpole to Maturin. In so doing, she highlights their shared techniques of narrative deferral, fantasies of origin and originality, and strategies of authenticity and authority. The book takes in the whole range of Waverley Novels, and includes analyses of such neglected works as The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, and Woodstock, as well as the more frequently studied Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, and Redgauntlet.
Offering fresh insight into the variety and complexity of Scott's novels, and into the traditions of criticism which have so often obscured them, Legitimate Histories makes an important contribution to the study of Romanticism, the novel, and to current theoretical debates concerning historical fiction and historiographic authority.
'... one of the most substantial and stimulating discussions of Scott in recent years; A sophisticated and enjoyable book.'
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