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Redgauntlet by Walter Scott

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Author Biography

Name: Walter Scott, Sir
Birth Date: August 15, 1771
Death Date: September 21, 1832
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Place of Death: Abbotsford, Scotland
Nationality: Scottish
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Walter Scott, Sir
921 words, approx. 3.1 pages
The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the acknowledged master of the historical novel. He was one of the most influential authors of modern times. Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh on August 15, 1771, the son of a lawyer with a...
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Biography of Walter Scott, Sir
8558 words, approx. 28.5 pages
Walter Scott was the most influential novelist in world literature. Relying on his capacious memory and drawing on medieval and Renaissance verse romance, his eighteenth-century forerunners in the novel, contemporary women writers of "national tales" and...


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Redgauntlet Information
479 words, approx. 2 pages
Redgauntlet is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1760s in Dumfries. It was published in...


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Studies in the Novel
"By no means an improbable fiction": 'Redgauntlet''s novel historicism.
06/22/1993: 6,583 words, approx. 22 pages
Walter Scott's 'Redgauntlet' is historical fiction that challenges the authenticity of history and the place of fiction in relation to it. Thomas Macaulay found Scott's appropriation of history problematic because he saw it as an intrusion into the historian's framework. Scott's reinterpretation of given...
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Studies in Romanticism
Giants in the North: Douglas, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Scott's Redgauntlet.(Critical Essay)
03/22/2001: 6,009 words, approx. 20 pages
IN THE SUMMER OF 1757, DAVID HUME EXULTED TO A FELLOW-SCOT, "IS IT not strange that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our parliaments, our independent Government, even the Presence of our Chief Nobility ... that, in these Circumstances, we...
 


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Redgauntlet by Walter Scott

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