Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, The Gabions Of The Late Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq. Of Monkbarns - Rilegato

Scott, Walter, Sir

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ISBN 10: 0748620729 ISBN 13: 9780748620722

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Reliquiae Trotcosienses was one of Scott's last works and, after his death, was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher. Although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905, this is the first complete edition, and has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated in the library at Abbotsford, the house near Melrose in the Scottish Borders which Scott built for his library and museum.
Reliquiae Trotcosienses (the Relics of Trotcosey) is a guide to Abbotsford and to its collections, and illustrates in miniature all the different ways in which Scott tried to recover the past: in building, in collecting, and in the multiple acts of narration which invest objects with significance. But it is simultaneously a work of fiction, which satirises the impulses of antiquarian collection. Scott would not take himself seriously, and through the learned buffoonery of this extraordinary work he mocks the kind of activity in which he was engaged as writer and collector.

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L'autore

Gerard Carruthers is Reader and Head of Department in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow Alison Lumsden is Senior Lecturer, Department of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0748620729
• ISBN 13: 9780748620722
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Redattore: Carruthers Gerard, Lumsden Alison