Witchcraft and Demonology in Scott's Fiction
Author | : Coleman O. Parsons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Demonology |
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Author | : Coleman O. Parsons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Demonology |
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Author | : sir Walter Scott (bart.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Demonology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter Scott, Sir |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2017-04-05 |
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ISBN | : 9781545153826 |
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft By Walter Scott
Author | : Coleman O. Parsons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Demonology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publisher | : VM eBooks |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016-01-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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INTRODUCTION. Sir Walter Scott's "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft" were his contribution to a series of books, published by John Murray, which appeared between the years 1829 and 1847, and formed a collection of eighty volumes known as "Murray's Family Library." The series was planned to secure a wide diffusion of good literature in cheap five-shilling volumes, and Scott's "Letters," written and published in 1830, formed one of the earlier books in the collection. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge had been founded in the autumn of 1826, and Charles Knight, who had then conceived a plan of a National Library, was entrusted, in July, 1827, with the superintendence of its publications. Its first treatises appeared in sixpenny numbers, once a fortnight. Its "British Almanac" and "Companion to the Almanac" first appeared at the beginning of 1829. Charles Knight started also in that year his own "Library of Entertaining Knowledge." John Murray's "Family Library" was then begun, and in the spring of 1832—the year of the Reform Bill—the advance of civilization by the diffusion of good literature, through cheap journals as well as cheap books, was sought by the establishment of"Chambers's Edinburgh Journal" in the North, and in London of "The Penny Magazine."
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2021-11-28 |
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. (1830) was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary and secondary sources. His book found many readers throughout the 19th century, and exercised a significant influence in promoting the Victorian vogue for Gothic and ghostly fiction. Though on first publication it met with mixed reviews, it is now recognised as a pioneering work of scientific anthropology, treating of its subject in an acute and analytical way which prefigures later scholarship on the subject, as well as presenting a highly readable collection of supernatural anecdotes.
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-04-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781095323397 |
The notion that witchcraft faded away with the onset of the scientific revolution is entirely mistaken. Sir Walter Scott wrote this volume for his son-in-law & biographer J. G. Lockhart. It stands in the grand tradition of writing on witchcraft & suggests that magic was alive & well in 19th-century Scotland, as contemporary newspaper reports confirm. Carefully researched, alive with stories drawn from his own & contemporaries' experience, & ranging in subject matter from ghosts & fairies to witches & astrologers, the ÔLetters' inform, enliven, & entertain as they try to wed 19th-century skepticism with evidence which contradicts it. Letters has been a major source of reference ever since it was published.
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publisher | : London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
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Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., London, G. Routledge & Sons, 1884.
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2015-05-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781512110968 |
"Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft" from Walter Scott. Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet (1771-1832).