Fiction against History
Subtitle: Scott as Storyteller
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780521033565
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Scott, Walter, --Sir, --1771-1832--Criticism; Scott, Walter,--Sir,--1771-1832--Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: My subject is Walter Scott the storyteller, the romancer who forged illusions of the past from an admixture of literary form and historical record, and the historian who used the logics of literary form as instruments for understanding the past.