The Shorter Fiction

Walter Scott
Edited by Graham Tulloch, Judy King

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Scott wrote short stories throughout his career, some included within novels, others published separately in periodicals. This collection of the stories from periodicals extends from his earliest published fiction to his last and comprises pieces from The Edinburgh Annual Register (1811), The Sale-Room (1817), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817-1818) and The Keepsake (1828-1831). Only three of these stories have been regularly reprinted; the other five are here made readily available for the first time. Publication in periodicals offered Scott new opportunities to explore the potential of the short story form and to demonstrate his enormous versatility as a writer of fiction.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Inferno of Altisidora
Christopher Corduroy
Alarming Increase of Depravity Among Animals
Phantasmagoria
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
The Tapestried Chamber
Death of the Laird's Jock
A Highland Anecdote
Essay on the Text
Emendation List
End-of-line Hyphens
Historical Note
Explanatory Notes
Glossary.

Reviews

The Shorter Fiction, as with all the volumes of the EEWN, contains all the full texts based on the first published version, followed by an 'Essay on the Text' by the editors of the volume offering a detailed and comprehensive account of the genesis, composition, and editorial history of each work. It also includes an 'Emendation List' made to the first editions, comprehensive historical accounts, explanatory notes and a glossary. These supplementary materials will be indispensable to scholars and students alike.
– Deirdre A. Shepherd, University of Edinburgh, BARS Bulletin and Review

Reviving almost forgotten stories... the editors [...] invite us to share their vision of an energetically creative Scott whose imaginative works can still surprise and affect us.
– Regina Hewitt, Scottish Literary Review

Reviving almost forgotten stories [...] the editors invite us to share their vision of an energetically creative Scott whose imaginative works can still surprise and affect us.
– Regina Hewitt, Scottish Literary Review

About the Author

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.

Graham Tulloch is Emeritus Professor of English at Flinders University and has published books and articles on Scottish language and literature. He has edited Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Marcus Clarke’s His Natural Life and Catherine Martin’s An Australian Girl as well as co-editing several texts with Judy King.

Judy King is a Research Fellow in English at Flinders University. With J. H. Alexander and Graham Tulloch she has edited Walter Scott’s The Siege of Malta and Bizarro and, with Graham Tulloch, Scott’s Shorter Fiction, Catherine Helen Spence’s Tenacious of the Past and James Hogg’s The Three Perils of Man. She has also published articles on Beowulf.

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