Reliquiae Trotcosienses - Scott, Walter
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One of Scott's last works, "Reliquiae Trotcosienses" was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher after his death. This is the first complete edition, although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905. This edition has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated to the library at Abbotsford-the house near Melrose in the Scottish Borders that Scott built for his library and museum. "Reliquiae Trotcosienses (the relics of Trotcosey)" is a guide to Abbotsford and its collections. It illustrates in detail the different ways in which Scott tried to recover the past: through…mehr

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One of Scott's last works, "Reliquiae Trotcosienses" was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher after his death. This is the first complete edition, although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905. This edition has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated to the library at Abbotsford-the house near Melrose in the Scottish Borders that Scott built for his library and museum. "Reliquiae Trotcosienses (the relics of Trotcosey)" is a guide to Abbotsford and its collections. It illustrates in detail the different ways in which Scott tried to recover the past: through building, collecting, and the multiple acts of narration that invest objects with significance. While simultaneously a work of fiction this book satirizes the impulses of antiquarian collection. Scott did not take himself seriously, as revealed through the learned buffoonery which mocks the kind of activity in which he was engaged as writer and collector. This is also a personal, elegiac creation, since the narrator, as he approaches death recognises that the house, its artifacts, and above all the writings will live on to mourn their begetter. In essence, they are fragments shored against his ruin.
Autorenporträt
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. Gerard Carruthers is Reader and Head of Department in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is General Editor of the forthcoming multi-volume Oxford University Press edition of the works of Robert Burns and is Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies. He is also the author of Robert Burns (Northcote, 2006), editor of The Devil to Stage: Five Plays by James Bridie (ASLS, 2007), Burns: Poems (Everyman, 2006) and co-editor of Beyond Scotland: New International Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (Rodopi, 2004), Walter Scott's Reliquiae Trotcosienses (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Alison Lumsden is a senior lecturer in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen and co-director of the Walter Scott Research Centre. She was for many years research fellow and then General Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and has published on several Scottish authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Nan Shepherd and Louis Grassic Gibbon. She is about to begin work on a scholarly edition of Scott's poetry.