Wednesday, August 1, 2018

READING WALTER SCOTT

Scott, Walter, The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. Press, 1993-2012).
Volume One: Waverley  [1814] (edited by P. D. Garside, 2007).
Volume Two: Guy Mannering [1815] (edited by P.D. Garside, 1999).
Volume Three: The Antiquary [1816] (edited by David Hewitt, 1995).
Volume Four [A]: The Black Dwarf [1816] (edited by P. D. Garside, 2007).
Volume Four [B]: The Tale of Old Mortality [1816] (edited by Douglas Mack, 1993).
Volume Five: Rob Roy [1818] (edited by aevid Hewitt).
Volume Six: The Heart of Mid-Lothian [1818] (edited by David Hewitt and Alison Lumsden, 2004).
Volume Seven [A]: The Bride of Lammermoor [1819] (edited by J.H. Alexander, 1995).
Volume Seven [B]: A Legend of the War of Montrose [1819] (edited by J.H. Alexander, 1995).
Volume Eight: Ivanhoe [1820] (edited by Graham Tulloch, 1998).
Volume Nine: The Monastery [1820] (edited by Penny Fielding, 2000).
Volume Ten: The Abbott [1820] (edited by Christopher Johnson (1993).
Volume Eleven: Kenilworth, A Romance [1821] (edited by J.H. Alexander, 1995).
Volume Twelve: The Pirate [1822] (edited by Mark Weinstein with Alison Lumsden, 2001).
Volume Thirteen: The Fortunes of Nigel [1822] (edited by Frank Jordan, 2004).
Volume Fourteen, Peveril of the Peak [1822] (edited by Alison Lumsden, 2007).
Volume Fifteen: Quentin Durward [1823] (edited by J.H. Alexander and G.A.M. Wood, 2001).
Volume Sixteen: Saint Ronan’s Well [1824] (edited by Mark Weinstein, 1995).
Volume Seventeen: Redgauntlet [1824] (edited by G.A.M. Wood with David Hewitt, 1997).
Volume Eighteen [A]: The Betrothedalisman [1825] (edited by J. B. Ellis, with J. H. Alexander & David Hewitt, 2009).
Volume Eighteen [B]: The Talisman [1825] (edited by J. B. Ellis, with J. H. Alexander, P. D. Garside & David Hewitt, 2009). From the book jacket:
The Talisman is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189-92). Scott constructs a story of chivalric action, apparently adopting a view of the similarities in the values of both sides that is to be found in medieval romance. But disguise is the leading theme of the tale: characters frequently wear clothing that conceals their identity and professions and cultures hide their true nature. In this novel the Christian leaders are divided by a factious criminality and are contrasted to the magnanimity and decisiveness of Saladin, the leader of the Islamic armies. In a period when the west was fascinated with the exotic east, Scott represents the Muslim other as more humane than the Christian west.
   The Talisman is one of Scott's great novels. It is a superb tale. It is also a bold departure as, for the first time, Scott explores cultural conflict in the opposition of two world religions.
Volume Nineteen: Woodstock [1826] (edited by Tony Inglis, with J. H. Alexander, David Hewitt & Alison Lumsden, 2009).
Volume Twenty: Chronicles of The Canongate [1928](edited Claire Lamont, 2000).
Volume Twenty-One: The Fair Maid of Perth [1928](edited by A.D. Hook and Donald Mackenzie, 1999).
Volume Twenty-Two: Anne of Geierstein [1820] (edited by J.H. Alexander, 2000).
Volume Twenty-Three [A]: Count Robert of Paris [1831] (edited by J.H. Alexander, 2006).
Volume Twenty-Three [B]: Castle Dangerous [1831] (edited by J.H. Alexander, 2006).
Volume Twenty-Four The Shorter Fiction [1811-1831] (edited by Graham Tulloch and Judy King, 2009).
Volume Twenty-Five [A]: Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Waverley to A Legend of the Wars of Montrose [1829-1833] (edited by J. H. Alexander with P. D. Garside & Claire Lamont, 2012).
Volume Twenty-Five [B]: Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous [1829-1833] (edited by J. H. Alexander with P. D. Garside & Claire Lamont, 2012).
Scott, Walter, Reliquae Trotcosienses or The Gabions of The Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns, edited by Gerald Carruthers and Alison Lumsden (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. Press, 2004).
Scott, Walter, The Siege of Malta and Bizarro, edited by J. H. Alexander, Judy King, and Graham Tulloch (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. Press, 2009).