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Literary Criticism English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Walter Scott

The Making of the Novelist

by (author) Jane Millgate

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 1987
Category
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802066923
    Publish Date
    Oct 1987
    List Price
    $35.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442683211
    Publish Date
    Oct 1987
    List Price
    $51.00

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Between 1814 and 1819 Walter Scott published a remarkable sequence of eight historical and regional novels, beginning with Waverley and culminating in The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose. In the process he made the Author of Waverley into the most successful and famous novelist in the world; by chooseing to remain anonymous, however, Scott deliberately separated this new achievement from the fame he had already gained as editor and poet.

 

This study of the first and major phase of Scott's career as a novelist reconsiders his act of secession from his own literary past and examines the interconnections between Scott the antiquarian and editor, Scott the romantic poet, and Scott the novelist.

About the author

Jane Millgate is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.

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