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Author Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.

Title Redgauntlet / Walter Scott ; edited by G.A.M. Wood with David Hewitt
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New York : Columbia University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 540 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Edinburgh edition of the Waverley novels ; 17
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Waverley novels (Edinburgh ed.) ; v. 17.
Summary "In the summer of 1765 Darsie Latimer sets out to discover the secret of his parentage in a journey to the wilds of Dumfriesshir. But very soon he discovers that he must confront not geographical but ideological wilds, for he is kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet and involved in a last, fictional attempt to restore the Stuarts to the British throne. His Edinburgh friend, the advocate Alan Fairford, seeks to find him, and finds modes of life which pay scant heed to the rule of law, and many who maintain a covert allegiance to the exiled monarchy. The violent past is repeatedly recalled: the oral diablerie of the inset 'Wandering Willie's Tale', probably the greatest short story ever written in Scots, provides a grotesque vision of the structures of an older Scotland. It is this older Scotland which Redgauntlet wished to restore, but Darsie, who set out as a romantic, discovers through his experience a commitment to the Hanoverian peace." "The text is based on the first edition of 1824, emended by readings from Scott's manuscript and proof corrections which were lost in the original process of preparing the text for publication."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-411) and index
Notes English
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Subject Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 -- Fiction
SUBJECT Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 fast
Subject Princes -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Jacobites -- Fiction
Jacobites
Princes
SUBJECT Scotland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Subject Great Britain
Scotland
Genre/Form Alternative histories (Fiction)
History
Fiction
Historical fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Form Electronic book
Author Wood, G. A. M.
Hewitt, David, 1942-
ISBN 058515905X
9780585159058
0191794988
9780191794988
0748698612
9780748698615