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Prefacing the Waverley Prefaces

其他書名	A Reading of Sir Walter Scott's Prefaces to the Waverley Novels
出版	P. Lang, 1991
主題	Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
ISBN	08204161189780820416113
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JJYeAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This is an extended reading of both the initial and the Magnum Opus prefaces to Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. Instead of being poorly crafted, expendable fluff, the prefaces describe Scott's theory of the historical novel - the subgenre he «invented» - and of historiography itself. The prefaces include an intricate arrangement of authorial personae, raising the essential questions concerning historical source material and narrative authority.