The Letters of Sir Walter Scott
Author : Sir Walter Scott
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Sir Walter Scott
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Walter Scott
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1826
Category : Letters, Scottish
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Author : Walter Scott
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1936
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Publisher : Turlough Publishers
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
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ISBN : 0956791735
Author : Walter Scott
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Authors, Scottish
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 714 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 1861
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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0191025976
'the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact' Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare. His character is fashioned through his experience of the Jacobite rising of 1745-6, the last civil war fought on British soil and the unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy, represented by Prince Charles Edward. Waverley's love for the spirited Flora MacIvor and his romantic nature increasingly pull him towards the Jacobite cause, and test his loyalty to the utmost. With Waverley, Scott invented the historical novel in its modern form and profoundly influenced the development of the European and American novel for a century at least. Waverley asks the reader to consider how history is shaped, who owns it, and what it means to live in it - questions as vital at the beginning of the twenty-first century as the nineteenth. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Walter Scott
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1808
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Author : Jonathan White
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802094589
In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles White offers new ways of perceiving an ancient cultural tradition in the twenty-first century. In doing so, he challenges readers to discern rich poetic seams that bind together his varied subject matter. Italian Cultural Lineages is primarily concerned with factors that unify Italians, however geographically dispersed they may be. Drawing on extensive archival and historical research, White shows how oftentimes Italian cultural traditions that appear to be extinct are, in fact, enduring pushed out of the mainstream or submerged at some given point in history, only to re-surface and take on new meanings at a later date. Other, more marginal currents might disrupt and fragment Italian identity, politically and socially. However, White proposes that the challenge to Italy in these new and difficult lessons in tolerance has the potential to produce a much stronger culture, primed to welcome the marginal into an expanded spirit of all that counts as Italian. Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.