The Life of Walter Scott

The Life of Walter Scott

Author: John Sutherland

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1998-01-06

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780631203179

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John Sutherland's new critical biography is an undertaking of major importance in which he penetrates into the darker areas of Scott's life in a sceptical (yet sympathetic) spirit,


Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott

Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott

Author: Fiona Robertson

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0748670203

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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.


The Laird of Abbotsford

The Laird of Abbotsford

Author: A. N. Wilson

Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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This critical biography the indifference which has surrounded Scott in this century and the distortions of his Victorian idolators to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries. By weaving together the life and works, and examining all of Scott's best-known books


Napoleon

Napoleon

Author: Sir Walter Scott

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781906142216

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Sir Walter Scott infuriated the more jingoistic of the British when his biography of Napoleon first appeared. The biography is of course coloured by the fact that it was written by a novelist but this only adds to its freshness and analytical features.


Lockhart's Life Of Scott

Lockhart's Life Of Scott

Author: John Gibson Lockhart

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781018666785

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Walter Scott At 250

Walter Scott At 250

Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Publisher: EUP

Published: 2023-02-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781474429870

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At 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as present. His times were times of crisis. Scott, then, has much to share in the experience, narration, anticipation and response to change as a condition of life - a condition our era, with its existential challenges to climate, to public health, to civilization knows only too well. In Scott at 250, major scholars foreground the author as theorist of tomorrow - as the surveyor of the complexities of the present who also gazes, as we do, toward an anxious and hopeful future.