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Fiction against History - Scott as Storyteller (Hardcover, New)
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Fiction against History - Scott as Storyteller (Hardcover, New)
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Walter Scott was acutely conscious of the fictionality of his
historical novels. Assuming Scott's keen awareness of the problems
of historical representation, James Kerr reads the Waverley novels
as a grand fictional project constructed around the relationship
between the language of fiction and historical reality. Scott
deliberately played fiction and history off against one another;
and we can see throughout his novels a tension between the
romancer, recasting the events of the past in accordance with
recognisably literary logics, and the historian, presenting an
accurate account of the past. This contradiction, reflected in
Scott's generic mixture of romance and realism, remains unresolved,
even in the most self-conscious of his works. It is in this
interplay of fiction and history that Professor Kerr identifies the
rich complexity of the Waverley novels.
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