The Monastery

By:

Walter Scott

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels

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Set on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, this book is a blend of local history, supernatural events, theological conflict, and humour. Located in the lawless Scottish borders, the novel depicts a monastery on the verge of dissolution and the fortunes of two brothers as they respond to the sense of a new social order. A talking-point when the work was first published, the mysterious spectral White Lady, guardian of the magical Black Book, still intrigues readers. A strong comic element Is provided by Sir Piercie Shafton with his absurd linguistic mannerisms fashionable at the English court.

Author Biography:

Penny Fielding is Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh and one of the General Editors of the New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Her books include Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760-1830 (CUP, 2008) and Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (OUP, 1996) as well as an edition of Scott's The Monastery for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh EUP, 2000).

Release date Australia

January 9th, 2001

Author

Walter Scott

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Penny Fielding

Pages

354

Series

Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels

Dimensions

138x216x23

ISBN-13

9780748605743

Product ID

2203715

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