The Heart of Mid-Lothian / / Walter Scott, Alison Lumsden, David Hewitt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Scott, Walter,; Hewitt, David,; Lumsden, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels : EEWN
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (792 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; General Introduction --; The Heart of Mid-Lothian --; Volume I --; Volume II --; Volume III --; Volume IV --; Essay on the Text --; Emendation List --; End-of-line Hyphens --; Historical Note --; Explanatory Notes --; Glossary --; Map: Central Edinburgh --; Map: The Heart of Mid-Lothian
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474433532; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474433532
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Walter Scott, Alison Lumsden, David Hewitt.

Find Out What Scott Really WroteGoing back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production.The Edinburgh Edition offers you:A clean, corrected textTextual historiesExplanatory notesVerbal changes from the first-edition textFull glossariesTitle DescriptionThe Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle – Scott's only chronicle – which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. The most complex of all Scott's narratives, it is also the most challenging in that it raises in an acute fashion the problem of a judicial system that does not produce justice. Scott places this fundamental issue in its immediate political context, in history as represented by the life of Deans, and alongside the justice of Providence as perceived by his daughter Jeanie, the greatest of Scott's heroines.The Edinburgh Edition of The Heart of Mid-Lothian provides a new text, and in its annotation treats comprehensively the novel's historical, legal, religious and cultural sources.