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Classical reception in Sir Walter Scott's Scottish novels. The role of Greece and Rome in the making of historic-national fiction
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This work explores Sir Walter Scott’s engagement with the classical past as it emerges, in a selection of his so-called Scottish novels, in the form of creative responses to stories and figures from the realms of literature, myth and history of Greece and Rome.
It aims to offer a fresh look at an author that experiences a contradictory state of being nowadays. On the one hand, Scott is in fact recognised as one of the great masters of the art of fictional writing, as well as...
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- DPhil
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- Doctoral
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- University of Oxford
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2020-11-22
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- D'Andrea, P
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- 2016
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