Old Mortality (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- First Published: 1816
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1679
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Leadership, Courage, Marriage, Seventeenth century, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Scotland or Scottish people, Battles, Nobility
- Locales: Scotland
Places Discussed
*Western Scotland. The main backdrop of the novel. For Scott, this region of Scotland was the geographical heart of the radical Covenanter tradition in Scottish history, and he was intensely interested in and deeply knowledgeable about this area, its people, and its history. Most of the places in the novel illuminate aspects of western Scotland and of the Covenanter rebellion which grew out of the west country of Scotland and which tore the country apart in 1679. On a more specifically symbolic level, Scott describes western Scotland as divided between bleak...
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