Title Reliquiae Trotcosienses : or, the gabions of the late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns / Walter Scott ; edited by Gerard Carruthers and Alison Lumsden, with an introduction by David Hewitt

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, in association with the Abbotsford Library Project Trust, [2004]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 143 pages) : illustrations Summary Reliquiae Trotcosienses was one of Scott's last works, and, after his death, was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher. Although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905, this is the first complete edition, and has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated in the library at Abbotsford, the house near Melrose in the Scottish Borders which Scott built for his library and museum. Reliquiae Trotcosienses (the relics of Trotcosey) is a guide to Abbotsford and to its collections, and illustrates in miniature all the different ways in which Scott tried to recover the past: in building, in collecting, and in the multiple acts of narration which invest objects with significance. But it is simultaneously a work of fiction, which satirises the impulses of antiquarian collection. Scott would not take himself seriously, and through the learned buffoonery of this extraordinary work he mocks the kind of activity in which he was engaged as writer and collector. Yet this is also a personal, elegiac creation, for the narrator as he approaches death recognises that the house, its artefacts, and above all the writings will live on to mourn their begetter: they are fragments shored against his ruin Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. SUBJECT Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 fast Subject Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Fiction FICTION -- Classics. Antiquities -- Collection and preservation Genre/Form novels. Novels Fiction Novels. Fiction. Romans. Form Electronic book Author Carruthers, Gerard, editor. Lumsden, Alison, editor. Abbotsford Library Project Trust. ISBN 9780748679508 0748679502 0748620729 9780748620722 0191794996 9780191794995

Other Titles Gabions of the late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns

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