Table of Contents

Introduction: Fiona Robertson (Birmingham City University); 1. Scott's Authorship and Book Culture, Ina Ferris (University of Ottawa); 2. Ballads and Borders, Kenneth McNeil (Eastern Connecticut State University); 3. The Narrative Poems, Alison Lumsden (University of Aberdeen) and Ainsley McIntosh (University of Aberdeen); 4. Scott's Jacobitical Plots, Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming); 5. History and Historiography, Catherine Jones (University of Aberdeen); 6. Scott's Worlds of War, Samuel Baker (University of Texas, Austin); 7. Scott and the Reformation of Religion, George Marshall (independent scholar); 8. Romancing and Romanticism; Fiona Robertson (Birmingham City University); 9. Monarchy and the Middle-Period Novels, Tara Ghoshal Wallace (George Washington University); 10. Scott and Political Economy, Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia); 11. Late Scott, Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley); 12. Afterlives and Artefacts, Nicola J. Watson (Open University).

About the Author

Fiona Robertson is Research Professor of English Literature at Birmingham City University. Her books include Legitimate Histories: Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), an edition of Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (Oxford: OUP, 1991), and a collection of biographical accounts of Scott by his contemporaries (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997).