Thackeray’s Errors
Published in Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks • Jan 1, 2006
Authors:
John W. Sutherland
Abstract
counter-factuality in fiction can be illuminating. A striking example is found in the seventh chapter of Walter Scott's The Antiquary. Sir Arthur Wardour and his daughter Isabella have just left a dinner party at the house of Sir Arthur's fellow-antiquary Monkbarns. The two men have quarrelled (not ...