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The life of Walter Scott : a critical biography

Author: John Sutherland
Publisher: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, 1995.
Series: Blackwell critical biographies, 6.
Edition/Format:  Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Immediate and immensely readable, this masterful account is at the same time a work of major biographical scholarship. John Sutherland penetrates into the darker areas of Scott's life in a sceptical (yet sympathetic) spirit, bringing the massive oeuvre and the chronicle of the life into manageable proportions, one illumining the other. Scott - the 'Great Unknown' - has always presented challenges to the biographer.  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Named Person: Walter Scott; Walter Scott, Sir; Walter Scott, Sir; Walter Scott; Walter Scott
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Sutherland
ISBN: 1557862311 9781557862310
OCLC Number: 30544808
Description: xi, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Scott among the Scotts (1771-1783) --
Student and apprentice (1783-1790) --
Getting forward (1790-1797) --
The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1798-1802) --
Ashestiel and The Lay of the Last minstrel (1802-1805) --
The Scott Brothers and Marmion (1806-1809) --
The complete author (1809-1811) --
Abbotsford and Waverley (1811-1814) --
Guy mannering to the antiquary (1814-1816) --
T̀ales of my Landlord' to The Heart of Midlothian (1816-1818) --
The Bride of Lammermoor to the Abbot (1818-1820) --
The Tory Grandee (1820-1822) --
The royal visit and Redgauntlet (1822-1823) --
The crash (1824-1826) --
Working for the creditors (1826-1827) --
The m̀agnum opus' (1828-1829) --
The last years (1830-1832).
Series Title: Blackwell critical biographies, 6.
Other Titles: Walter Scott
Responsibility: John Sutherland.
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Immediate and immensely readable, this masterful account is at the same time a work of major biographical scholarship. John Sutherland penetrates into the darker areas of Scott's life in a sceptical (yet sympathetic) spirit, bringing the massive oeuvre and the chronicle of the life into manageable proportions, one illumining the other. Scott - the 'Great Unknown' - has always presented challenges to the biographer. Layers of myth continue to protect him from posterity. There is also the sheer size of Scott's achievements as poet, novelist, man of letters, and self-made Laird of Abbotsford. Sutherland justifies Scott as a writer to be read and understand today as much as in his heyday in the nineteenth century.

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