Auteur: P. D. Garside

Walter Scott’s first novel, as he originally intended it to be read This edition of Scott’s Waverley marks the bicentenary of the first publication of the novel. It presents the authoritatively edite …

Walter Scott’s first novel, as he originally intended it to be read This edition of Scott’s Waverley marks the bicentenary of the first publication of the novel. It presents the authoritatively edite …

A thorough re-evaluation of Scott’s output as a writer of short poems Includes poems not in the standard edition of Scott’s collected poems or not previously printed anywhere Based on new archival re …

A thorough re-evaluation of Scott’s output as a writer of short poems Includes poems not in the standard edition of Scott’s collected poems or not previously printed anywhere Based on new archival re …

Edward Waverley is a young, cultured man whose sensibilities lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. In his journey into Scotland, down to Derby, and back up again, he explores the cu …

The second of Tales of the Crusaders, The Talisman is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189 – 92). Scott constructs a story of chivalric action, apparently adopting a medieval romance view …

Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first, abortive, Jacobite uprising of 1708. Instead it developed into a g …

Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, first published in 1815, was Walter Scott’s second novel. Guy Mannering only half-believes in his art, but does believe in the ability of his patriarchal power, weal …

In Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) the young John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of an elderly Welsh physician) portrayed and analysed the society of Regency Glasgow and Edinburgh in terms o …

In Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) the young John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of an elderly Welsh physician) portrayed and analysed the society of Regency Glasgow and Edinburgh in terms o …

This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition o …

This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition o …