TY  - GEN
T1  - The fair maid of Perth
T2  - Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Waverley novels (Edinburgh ed.) ;
A1  - Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
A2  - Hook, Andrew
A2  - Mackenzie, Donald, 1949-
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 1999
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn607415159
AB  - Find Out What Scott Really WroteGoing 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 textTextual historiesExplanatory notesVerbal changes from the first-edition textFull glossariesTitle DescriptionThe Fair Maid of Perth centres on the merchant classes of Perth in the fourteenth century, and their commitment to the pacific values of trade, in a bloody and brutal era in which no right to life is recognised, in which the Scottish nobles fight for control of the weak Scottish monarchy, and clans are prepared to extinguish each other to gain supremacy in the central Highlands. It is a remarkable novel, in part because late in his career Scott has a new subject, and in part because he employs a spare narrative style that is without parallel in the rest of his oeuvre. Far too many critics, from his son-in-law J.G. Lockhart to the present day, have written off late Scott, and seen his last works as evidence of failing powers. Readers of the Edinburgh Edition of The Fair Maid of Perth will see that these critics are mistaken, for in it we witness a luminous creative intelligence working at high pressure to produce a tightly organised and deeply moving novel.
OP  - 532
CN  - PR5322 .W4 1995 vol. 21
SN  - 1474433502
SN  - 9781474433501
SN  - 0748605851
SN  - 9780748605859
KW  - Scotland : History : Robert III, 1390-1406 : Fiction.
KW  - Perth (Scotland) : Fiction.
KW  - Social classes : Fiction.
KW  - Merchants : Fiction.
KW  - Nobility : Fiction.
KW  - Classes sociales : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Commerçants : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Noblesse : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Écosse : Histoire : 1390-1406 (Robert III) : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Perth (Perth and Kinross, Écosse) : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
KW  - Merchants
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Scotland : Perth
KW  - 1390-1406
KW  - History
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction.
ER  -