Chronicles of the Canongate
By: Walter Scott ; edited by Claire Lamont.
Contributors: Lamont, Claire.
Series: The Edinburgh edition of the Waverley novels ;; 20
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: Scots -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.; Scotland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Chronicles of the Canongate is unique among Scott's works as it is his only collection of shorter fiction. It contains his best-known tales, 'The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers', and a third, less well known but of startling originality, 'The Surgeon's Daughter'. The three are set within the framing narrative of Chrystal Croftangry, an old bankrupt with pretensions to literature, who must inevitably be seen as a portrait of the artist facing up to his own insolvency in 1826." "Tales in a framework have a long ancestry in European and Oriental literature, and in Chronicles of the Canongate Scott adapts the genre with consummate skill. Each of the stories and Croftangry's narrative may be read independently, but together they constitute a themed work in which the narrator treats of the cultural conflicts in the new Britain and its growing empire in the thirty years from 1756."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE; title: Volume I; title: Introduction 3; title: Chrystal Croftangry 's Narrative 13; title: The Highland Widow 68; title: Chrystal Croftangry's Narrative 122; title: The Two Drovers I24; title: Volume II 147; title: Chrystal Croftangry's Narrative 147; title: The Surgeon's Daughter 158; title: Chrystal Croftangry's Narrative 286; title: Essay on the Text 289; title: genesis 289; title: composition 294; title: foreign and later editions 321; title: the present text 330; title: Emendation List 357; title: appendix 375; title: End-of-line Hyphens 377; title: Explanatory Notes 378; title: explanatory notes to the Introduction 379; title: explanatory notes to the Croftangry Narrative 384; title: historical note to The Highland Widow 408; title: explanatory notes to The Highland Widow 414; title: historical note to The Two Drovers 427; title: explanatory notes to The Two Drovers 432; title: historical note to The Surgeon's Daughter 444; title: explanatory notes to The Surgeon's Daughter 459; title: Glossary 493.