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Legitimate Histories - Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction (Hardcover)
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Legitimate Histories - Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Legitimate Histories is an innovative reading of Walter Scott's
Waverley Novels in the context of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Gothic. Most critics have treated these two
forms of historical narrative as though they were completely
unrelated, but Fiona Robertson's detailed study places Scott's work
in the context of Gothic fictions from Walpole to Maturin. In so
doing, she highlights their shared techniques of narrative
deferral, fantasies of origin and originality, and strategies of
authenticity and authority. The book takes in the whole range of
Waverley Novels, and includes analyses of such neglected works as
The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, and Woodstock, as well
as the more frequently studied Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian,
and Redgauntlet. Offering fresh insight into the variety and
complexity of Scott's novels, and into the traditions of criticism
which have so often obscured them, Legitimate Histories makes an
important contribution to the study of Romanticism, the novel, and
to current theoretical debates concerning historical fiction and
historiographic authority.
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