Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

A selective list of articles on the British novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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Literary Criticism

Ali, Zahra A Hussein. "Adjusting the borders of self: Sir Walter Scott's The Two Drovers." Papers on Language and Literature, (2001)

Kernohan, R.D. 'Will ye no' come back again?' whatever happened to Sir Walter Scott? Contemporary Review, May, 1993

Saintsbury, George. A discussion of verse form in Scott, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)

Uglow, Nathan. An introduction to Sir Walter Scott from the Literary Encyclopedia, 27 March 2002. On Scott's contribution to the historical novel; On Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802); Waverley, Or, Tis Sixty Years Since (1814); Old Mortality (1816); Rob Roy (1817); The Bride of Lammermoor (1819); A Legend of Montrose (1819); The Pirate (1821); Redgauntlet (1824)


Introduction

An introduction to Sir Walter Scott and his time from George Landow's Victorian Web

Older criticism on Sir Walter Scott's major and minor works and a biography from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)

A survey of Scottish literature with a brief discussion of Scott, from Univ. of St. Andrews

Articles by the 19th century author Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Scott's major heroines

"'We Read What Was There': Secondary School Libraries and Adolescent Girl Readers in Second World War Australia," on Sir Walter Scott and school reading. A paper by Rosemary Montgomery, from Australian Scholarly Editions Centre

A guide to Victorian research resources from the VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies


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