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Bezig met laden... The Chronicles of the Cannongate (Waverley Novels, Vol 41 of 42: The Highland Widow; The Two Drovers; My Aunt Margaret's Mirror; The Tapestried Chamber; Death of the Laird's Jock) (origineel 1827; editie 1832)door Walter Scott (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkChronicles of the Canongate, 1st set door Sir Walter Scott (1827)
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Volume 23 of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The three tales, "The highland widow", "The two drovers" and "The surgeon's daughter" , especially the first two, are very simple in structure, with only two or three main characters, the sort of thing you could summarise in a sentence or two. Scott builds up a careful, almost forensic, analysis of historical context and motivation to show us how rather ordinary people get pushed by circumstances into tragic (even operatic...) situations.
At a psychological level, all three stories are about the destructive effect of notions of pride and honour, but it's perhaps more interesting for modern readers to reflect on the way the stories deal with the relation between Scotland and the outside world in the eighteenth century. A highland warrior astute enough to realise that there's no future in the traditional occupations of tribal warfare and cattle rustling is still unable to adapt to the mechanical discipline of the British army; A drover (cattle being Scotland's other great export, apart from people) can't make sense of the English way of resolving disputes of honour by unarmed combat; A young man seduced by inflated ideas of his own social status destroys himself and his friends by seeking wealth and glory in India instead of following a humdrum but respectable profession in Scotland. Scott isn't blaming one side or the other, in fact he goes to surprising lengths to make us understand both sides of the conflicts involved. The judge in "The two drovers" is almost as sympathetic a character as the drover. Both act in ways that are correct and honourable in the context of the societies in which they live. For all his toryism, Scott seems to be putting forward the classic Enlightenment view of history: societies evolve, and different stages of society have different value systems. ( )