The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part IV: Chronicles of Carlingford (The Pickering Masters) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851966145 ISBN 13: 9781851966141

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Part IV offers the first critical edition of the four full length novels and three stories that comprise the Chronicles of Carlingford. Each of the five volumes contains a full scholarly apparatus, including the important variations between the serial versions and the first publication in volume format.

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About the Author

Joanne Shattock is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Leicester. Her research interests focus on the nineteenth-century periodical press, nineteenth-century women's writing, book history, life-writing and bibliography. She is President of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and holds an Honorary Moser Fellowship at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Keele. Elisabeth Jay is Emeritus Professor of English at Oxford Brookes University. Her interests lie predominantly in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and she has published widely on the fiction, prose and poetry of this period. She is on the Advisory Boards of the journals Literature & Theology (OUP) and English (OUP) and of the Institute of English Studies (University of London).

Review

'by making all of the "Chronicles" available, Pickering & Chatto allows scholars to both read and appreciate the stories individually and to consider the recurring characters, thematic similarities, and plot continuities that make them a series.' Review 19

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1851966145
• ISBN 13: 9781851966141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1824
• Editor: Bristow Joseph, Jay Elisabeth, O’Cinneide Muireann, Pykett Lyn, Shattock Joanne