Prefacing the Waverley Prefaces: A Reading of Sir Walter Scott Prefaces to the Waverley Novels by Gaston, Patricia S.

Prefacing the Waverley Prefaces: A Reading of Sir Walter Scott Prefaces to the Waverley Novels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820416113)

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Prefacing the Waverley Prefaces: A Reading of Sir Walter Scott Prefaces to the Waverley Novels by Gaston, Patricia S.

Prefacing the Waverley Prefaces: A Reading of Sir Walter Scott Prefaces to the Waverley Novels

$47.95
Prefacing the Waverley Prefaces: A Reading of Sir Walter Scott Prefaces to the Waverley Novels by Gaston, Patricia S.

Prefacing the Waverley Prefaces: A Reading of Sir Walter Scott Prefaces to the Waverley Novels

$47.95
Format: Hardcover
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This is an extended reading of both the initial and the Magnum Opus prefaces to Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. Instead of being poorly crafted, expendable fluff, the prefaces describe Scott's theory of the historical novel - the subgenre he invented - and of historiography itself. The prefaces include an intricate arrangement of authorial personae, raising the essential questions concerning historical source material and narrative authority.

Author: Patricia S. Gaston
ISBN-10: 0820416118
ISBN-13: 9780820416113
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1992
Pages: 181
Format: Hardcover
By Patricia S. Gaston
By Patricia S. Gaston
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The Author: Patricia Gaston received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where she studied with Alistair Duckworth and John Leavey. She was a participant in a 1990 NEH seminar on Sir Walter Scott, conducted by James Chandler at the University of Chicago.

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