Walter Scott's Books

Scott''s Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott''s intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question of Scott''s ''circumbendibus'' style head on, suggesting that it is actually one of the most ex...