Waverley : or, 'tis sixty years since
Scott, Walter2015
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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.
Main title:
Waverley : or, 'tis sixty years since / Sir Walter Scott, edited by Claire Lamont with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland.
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Edition:
Revised edition.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Collation:
xlv., 504 pages ; 20 cm
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ISBN:
9780198716594 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
3067508