Walter Scott : modern judgements

Front Matter....Pages 1-26 Walter Scott: The Writer (1945)....Pages 27-32 Scott’s Achievement as a Novelist (1951) ....Pages 33-62 Scott’s Heroes (1963)....Pages 63-70 Waverley and the ‘Unified Design’ (1951)....Pages 71-83 Waverley (1961)....Pages 84-97 Providence, Fate, and the Historical Imagination in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian (1955)....Pages 98-111 The Heart of Midlothian: Scott as Artist (1956)....Pages 112-121 Rob Roy (1961)....Pages 122-129 The Bride of Lammermoor: A Novel of Tory Pessimism (1957)....Pages 130-141 The Anti-Romantic in Ivanhoe (1955)....Pages 142-147 Scott’s Redgauntlet (1958)....Pages 148-161 Scott as Pessimist: A View of St Ronan’s Well (1966)....Pages 162-170 The Fair Maid, Manzoni’s Betrothed, and the Grounds of Waverley Criticism (1963)....Pages 171-184 Back Matter....Pages 185-190