Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Macrone
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- ISBN 9780748669912
- Weight: 409g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Annotated critical edition of a newly discovered life of Scott by one of his contemporaries
John Macrone, who wrote this life of Scott in 1832-3, was admirably suited to the task; for, while he had never met Scott, his friends and associates included Cunningham, Galt, and Hogg, who wrote his Anecdotes of Scott for publication in Macrone's book. A quarrel with Lockhart, however, put a stop to the project, and nothing more was heard of it until the recent discovery of an autograph manuscript, here edited and published for the first time. A well-written and carefully-researched narrative, it increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, as well as enabling us to read Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. The editor's introduction draws extensively on uncollected and unpublished material to illuminate Macrone's career, in the course of which he became the friend and publisher of Dickens, Thackeray, and Moore
Key Features
The first publication of a manuscript which was believed to be lostProvides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and workIncludes an introduction by the editor and a specially commissioned essay by Gillian Hughes giving a detailed account of Macrone’s career based largely on uncollected or unpublished materialEstablishes a new context for James Hogg's Anecdotes of Scott
Daniel Grader completed his PhD in English Literature at the UNiversity of St. Andrews in 2010 having completed an MSc by Research in English Literature and and MA (Hons) in English Literature and Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently an independent scholar.
