Woodstock

By:

Walter Scott

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Hardback

Series:

Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels

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Woodstock opens in farce, yet it is one of Scott's darkest novels. It deals with revolution, to Scott the most disturbing of all subjects: 'it appears that every step we made towards liberty, has but brought us in view of more terrific perils'. Written during the financial crisis which led to his insolvency in January 1826, the novel, Scott feared, 'would not stand the test'. Yet it does: it is set in England in 1651 as Parliamentary forces hunt the fugitive Charles Stewart who days previously had been defeated at Worcester. In the superb portrait of Cromwell we see a self-torturing despot who attempts to be in full control in the name of religion; in the rakish Charles we see a man without self-reflection whose own libertarianism after his restoration to the English throne in 1660 permitted a great burgeoning in scientific enquiry and the arts. This edition of Woodstock is based on the first, but emended in the light of readings in the manuscript and proofs that were misread, and at times deliberately suppressed, as Scott's own hand-written words were turned into a printed book.

Author Biography:

Tony Inglis is a retired Senior Lecturer in English, the University of Sussex. J. H. Alexander is Reader Emeritus in English at the University of Aberdeen. David Hewitt was Regius Chalmers Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen and is Editor-in-chief of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Alison Lumsden is a senior lecturer in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen and co-director of the Walter Scott Research Centre. She was for many years research fellow and then General Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and has published on several Scottish authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Nan Shepherd and Louis Grassic Gibbon. She is about to begin work on a scholarly edition of Scott's poetry.

Release date Australia

August 3rd, 2009

Author

Walter Scott

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by Alison Lumsden
Edited by David Hewitt
Edited by J.H. Alexander
Edited by Tony Inglis

Pages

670

Series

Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels

Dimensions

138x216x43

ISBN-13

9780748605835

Product ID

3173471

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