"Lorna Doone" is the perenially popular story of how John Ridd, a Devon farmer, falls in love with the aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones of Exmoor. Since it was first published in 1869, the novel has remained constantly in print.;This text of "Lorna Doone" is accompanied by an examination of the novel in its different contexts as a romance, as an historical novel set at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion in the 17th century, and as a new development in the pastoral tradition.
The editor discusses Victorian social values and the image of a "manly" hero whose inward doubts prompt him constantly to prove his own masculinity to himself.;Sally Shuttleworth is the author of "George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science" and co-editor with John Christie of "Transfigurations - Essays on Science and Literature 1700-1900".
| ISBN: | 9780192817679 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 1989 |
| Author: | R D Blackmore, Sally Shuttleworth |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Series: | The World's Classics |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary essays Classic fiction: general and literary |
"Lorna Doone" is the perenially popular story of how John Ridd, a Devon farmer, falls in love with the aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones of Exmoor. Since it was first published in 1869, the novel has remained constantly in print.;This text of "Lorna Doone" is accompanied by an examination of the novel in its different contexts as a romance, as an historical novel set at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion in the 17th century, and as a new development in the pastoral tradition.
Lorna Doone features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary essays, Classic fiction: general and literary
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Lorna Doone was written by R D Blackmore, Sally Shuttleworth and published by Oxford University Press
Yes it is part of The World's Classics series