Walter Scott’s Post-War Europe
Marilyn Butler, 7 February 1980
Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination
by David Brown.
Routledge, 239 pp., £9.75, August 1980,0 7100 0301 3 Show More
by David Brown.
Routledge, 239 pp., £9.75, August 1980,
“... Scott perhaps illustrates more clearly than other writers the gap between the ideas of the general educated reader and those of the professional academic. The non-professional thinks of him as the mildly spurious Laird of Abbotsford, the sentimental reviver of a heroic Border and Highland past, who was still in the early 19th century more than half a Jacobite ... ”