The pirate

Walter Scott ; edited by Mark Weinstein and Alison Lumsden

No historical figures appear in The Pirate, and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those 'corners of time' where an old era is coming to an end, and a new is beginning. The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles the 'Glorious Revolution' actually means the beginning of the cultural dominance of Scotland and the advent of English power. Scott draws heavily on the diary he kept on his tour round the lighthouses of Scotland in 1814. In both the diary and the novel he weighs the real need to improve the agricultural methods of this barely subsistence economy against the force of tradition and the human cost of rapid change. The plot hinges on an illicit relationship, and is driven by dark men twisted by their criminality, an obsessed woman searching for her lost son, and the murderous rivalry of two young men - a family tale which illustrates the uses and abuses of traditional lore, as well as Scott's extraordinary grasp of the literature of the north.

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書名 The pirate
著作者等 Scott, Walter, Sir
Weinstein, Mark
Scott Sir Walter
Weinstein Mark
Lumsden Alison
シリーズ名 Edinburgh edition of the Waverley novels
出版元 Edinburgh University Press
刊行年月 c2001
ページ数 xvi, 607 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780748605767
NCID BA52002363
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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