San Antonio College Library

This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.

A good deal of Scott's commercial writing is now of historical interest only. But there are important and valuable books, especially those where Scott is contemplating the detribalization of Scotland after the Jacobite rebellions, and the political and social stresses this brought about. This is a modern concern, since we live in the developed world with the long-term consequences, and, when this book was first published in 1973, similar processes...

Edgar Johnson's new biography of Sir Walter Scott is a complete revaluation of Scott's character and writings, based on fifteen years of research in published and unpublished sources. Correcting many errors and mis-statements in the classic life of Scott by his son-in-law J.G. Lockhart, it draws on much material that was unavailable to previous biographers.

A Contemporary reassessment of this British novelist's poetry and fiction.

Presents the background to the life and times of Sir Walter Scott, surveys his works, and provides contemporary critical opinions of them.