Allen, Walter. "The Modern Story: Origins, Background, Affinities." In his The Short Story in English, pp. 3-24. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Identifies "The Two Drovers" as "the first modem English short story," noting that the story "is the nearest Scott ever came to writing tragedy."

Gordon, George. "'The Chronicles of the Canongate.'" In Scott Centenary Articles, pp. 174-84. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.

Relates the circumstances surrounding the creation and publication of Chronicles of the Canongate.

Hayes, Michael. "Introduction." In The Supernatural Stories of Sir Walter Scott, pp. 9-11. London: John Calder, 1977.

Brief overview of Scott's short fiction.

Rosenburg, Edgar. "The Jew as Clown and the Jew's Daughter." In his From Shylock to Svengali, Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction, pp. 73-115. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960.

Discusses Scott's use of the stereotypical Jew as "comic miser" in his fiction, principally in Ivanhoe, but also examines the role of "the Jew's Daughter as unwed mother" in "The Surgeon's Daughter."

Additional coverage of Scott's life and career is contained in the following sources published by The Gale Group: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 22; Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography 1789-1832; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 93, 107, 116, 144, 159; Discovering Authors; Discovering Authors: British; Discovering Authors: Canadian; Discovering Authors: Most-studied Authors Module, Novelists Module, Poets Module; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 15; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 13; World Literature Criticism; and Yesterday's Authors of Books for Children, Vol. 2.