
Sir Walter Scott: A Life in Story
Book
Walter Scott was obsessed with the traditional tales of Border lands and the exploits of his...

Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Work
Book
In the bicentenary year of the publication of Sir Walter Scott's first novel Waverley, this is a...

Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott
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The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a...
James Fenimore Cooper the Novelist
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Originally published in 1967. In this critical survey of the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper,...

Flora Mcivor: A Jacobite Novel
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Two extraordinary women come back to full-bodied life. Flora McIvor has been rescued from the pages...

Gulliver's Travels: Based on the 1726 Text : Contexts, Criticism
Jonathan Swift and Albert J. Rivero
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It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced...

Arcadian Nights
Book
The vibrant retelling of the central Greek myths by acclaimed novelist John Spurling, author of The...