This new editon of The Fair Maid of Perth reintroduces the formerly neglected later writings of Scott.
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The volumes have been carefully and critically edited from the original manuscripts and now the texts, which in each case capture large numbers of readings never before printed and clear away elements of corruption in existing editions, are as close to what Scott originally wrote as the skills of the editorial team can make them. The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary ! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of compostion and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. The Edinburgh Edition is essential to any Scott scholar ... [the student] will turn first to the superbly specific textual essays that follow the readings. The latest additions to the monumental Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels ... all three editors maintain consistently high quality in preparing what will surely be the standard edition of Scott's complete novels ... as might be expected, the Essays on the Text are of central importance in the editions, because of the minutely detailed yet lucid accounts of the textual choices made. The volumes have been carefully and critically edited from the original manuscripts and now the texts, which in each case capture large numbers of readings never before printed and clear away elements of corruption in existing editions, are as close to what Scott originally wrote as the skills of the editorial team can make them. The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary ! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of compostion and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. The Edinburgh Edition is essential to any Scott scholar ... [the student] will turn first to the superbly specific textual essays that follow the readings. The latest additions to the monumental Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels ... all three editors maintain consistently high quality in preparing what will surely be the standard edition of Scott's complete novels ... as might be expected, the Essays on the Text are of central importance in the editions, because of the minutely detailed yet lucid accounts of the textual choices made.
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Andrew Hook is Emeritus Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow.
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EVERY QUARTER of Edinburgh has its own peculiar boast, so that the city together combines within its precincts, (if you take the word of the inhabitants on the subject,) as much variety as beauty, as much of historical interest as of natural sublimity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Simon Glover, Duke of Rothsay, Henry Smith, Clan Quhele, Sir John Ramorny, Sir Patrick Charteris, Clan Chattan, Duke of Albany, Oliver Proudfute, Henry Gow, Father Clement, Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine Glover, Earl of March, Bailie Craigdallie, King Robert, Henry Wynd, Earl of Douglas, Palm Sunday, Black Douglas, Curfew Street, Gilchrist Maclan, Harry Smith, Eachin Maclan, Earl of Crawford New!
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EVERY QUARTER of Edinburgh has its own peculiar boast, so that the city together combines within its precincts, (if you take the word of the inhabitants on the subject,) as much variety as beauty, as much of historical interest as of natural sublimity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
joyous science, interleaved copy, clan battle, female minstrel, hark thee, common bell, honest burgher, bloody heart, royal burgh, fair maid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Simon Glover, Duke of Rothsay, Henry Smith, Clan Quhele, Sir John Ramorny, Sir Patrick Charteris, Clan Chattan, Duke of Albany, Oliver Proudfute, Henry Gow, Father Clement, Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine Glover, Earl of March, Bailie Craigdallie, King Robert, Henry Wynd, Earl of Douglas, Palm Sunday, Black Douglas, Curfew Street, Gilchrist Maclan, Harry Smith, Eachin Maclan, Earl of Crawford New!
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