The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott

by Robertson, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9780748641291
• ISBN10: 0748641297
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-25
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

This companion explores the full breadth of Scott's work, from his early lyrics and poetry, such as The Lay of the Last Minstreland The Lady of the Lake, to the Waverley Novels, and his journal and essays including "Chivalry and Romance." It also delves into Scott's reaction to contemporaries such as Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson and explores his experimentation, originality and relationship to Romanticism in order to better understand his permanent and unmistakable place in literary and popular culture. Contributors include Caroline McCracken, Flesher Alexander Dick, and Alison Lumsden.

Author Biography

Fiona Robertson is Horace Walpole Professor of English Literature at St Mary's University College. She has published several editorial and critical studies of Walter Scott as well as works on a range of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century British and American literature.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. vii
Brief Biography of Sir Walter Scott	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Scott's Authorship and Book Culture	p. 9
Ballads and Borders	p. 22
The Narrative Poems	p. 35
Scott's Jacobitical Plots	p. 47
History and Historiography	p. 59
Scott's Worlds of War	p. 70
Scott and the Reformation of Religion	p. 82
Romancing and Romanticism	p. 93
Monarchy and the Middle-Period Novels	p. 106
Scott and Political Economy	p. 118
Late Scott	p. 130
Afterlives	p. 143
Endnotes	p. 156
Further Reading	p. 181
Notes on Contributors	p. 185
Index	p. 188
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