Fiction Against History

by James Kerr

Book Overview

Walter Scott was acutely conscious of the fictionality of his historical narratives. Assuming Scott's keen awareness of the problems of historical representation, James Kerr reads the Waverley novels as a grand fictional project constructed around the relationship between the language of fiction and the historical reality. Scott deliberately played fiction and history off against one another; and we can see throughout his novels a tension between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521364256
• ISBN13: 9780521364256
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"