Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since, Sir Walter Scott - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHY

Sutherland, John. “Abbotsford and Waverley (1811-1814).” In The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography, pp. 154-75. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.

Describes Scott's delayed writing of Waverley and the novel's relationship to the political atmosphere of Europe in 1814.

CRITICISM

Beiderwell, Bruce. “The Lesson of Waverley.” In Power and Punishment in Scott's Novels, pp. 11-27. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Concentrates on the theme of social justice and issues raised concerning capital punishment in Waverley.

Bevan, Ernest, Jr. “Waverley and the Forms of Temporal Perception.” Massachusetts Studies in English 5, no. 4 (1978): 11-17.

Describes Scott's manipulation of time through his representation of personal, familial, political, and historical pasts in Waverley.

Brown, David....

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