Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Shortened Forms of Reference
- Introduction: The ‘Poverty’ of Words
- 1 ‘Living in a World of Death’: Scott's Narrative Poems
- 2 Speaking my Language: Waverley, Guy Mannering and The Antiquary
- 3 ‘Dying Words and Last Confessions’: The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- 4 Lost in Translation: Ivanhoe, The Fortunes of Nigel and Peveril of the Peak
- 5 ‘Narrative Continued’: Redgauntlet and Chronicles of the Canongate
- 6 Last Words: Count Robert of Paris, Reliquiae Trotcosienses and Castle Dangerous
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Shortened Forms of Reference
- Introduction: The ‘Poverty’ of Words
- 1 ‘Living in a World of Death’: Scott's Narrative Poems
- 2 Speaking my Language: Waverley, Guy Mannering and The Antiquary
- 3 ‘Dying Words and Last Confessions’: The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- 4 Lost in Translation: Ivanhoe, The Fortunes of Nigel and Peveril of the Peak
- 5 ‘Narrative Continued’: Redgauntlet and Chronicles of the Canongate
- 6 Last Words: Count Robert of Paris, Reliquiae Trotcosienses and Castle Dangerous
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Walter Scott and the Limits of Language , pp. i - iiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2010