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Guy Mannering Hardcover - 1999

by Walter Scott; P. D. Garside (Editor)

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Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, first published in 1815, was Walter Scott's second novel. Guy Mannering only half-believes in his art, but does believe in the ability of his patriarchal power, wealth and social position to sort out social confusion. However he has to learn the limits of a nabob's authority in a society that (in the 1780s) is no longer a single hierarchy but has many subsets, each with its own laws - gypsies, smugglers, Edinburgh lawyers, the Border store farmer, the traditional landowner. Guy Mannering is set at the time of the American Revolution, and represents a Scotland at once backward and advanced, patriarchal and commercial, traditional and modern, a country in very varied stages of progression. This is the first modern edition of one of Scott's finest works. It is based on the first edition, but is corrected from the manuscript, and restores around two thousand readings lost through error or misunderstanding. For the first time it includes Scott's extended portraits of the Edinburgh literati which were unaccountably omitted from the printed version.

Details

Title Guy Mannering
Author Walter Scott; P. D. Garside (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 616
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
Date 1999-04-16
ISBN 9780748605682 / 0748605681
Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.6 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 4.06 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Library of Congress subjects Scotland, Historical fiction
Library of Congress Catalog Number 95229429
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Sir Walter Scott, was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics and include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Peter Garside is an established scholar and experienced textual editor, well known in his field, and whose previous publications include critical editions of Scott, Hogg and Lockhart, all published by Edinburgh University Press. He is also the author of a string of articles interrogating Lockhart's treatment of key incidents in the Life, the latest of which is 'Scott's Last Words' [Studies in Scottish Literature, 47/2 (Fall 2021), 25-40].