...Philip Connell Philip Connell, “Walter Scott and the Bourbon Restorations” (pp. 1–37) This essay argues that Walter Scott’s early historical fiction was decisively shaped by the shifting structure of British political argument at the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars. The first and second Bourbon...

...Thomas Ruys Smith Thomas Ruys Smith, “‘The Enchantments of Waverley’: Walter Scott and Children’s Reading in Nineteenth-Century America” (pp. 145–175) While the deep popularity and widespread presence of the works of Walter Scott in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America have long been...

...Luke Terlaak Poot Luke Terlaak Poot, “Scott’s Momentaneousness: Bad Timing in The Bride of Lammermoor ” (pp. 283–310) This essay takes up the debate at the beginning of Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), noting that critics have generally treated one figure in this debate—Dick Tinto...

...Brian Goldberg Brian Goldberg, “Debt, Taxes, and Reform in Walter Scott’s Count Robert of Paris ” (pp. 343–368) Walter Scott’s Count Robert of Paris (1831) treats “debt” in a way determined by the author’s response to the Reform Crisis of 1830–1832. Scott’s solution to the reformist impulse...

...Juliet Shields This essay reassesses James Fenimore Cooper's literary relationship to Walter Scott by examining the depiction of Scots in The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and The Prairie (1827). Read as companion texts, these novels represent the imperial migrations of Scots as a cause of Native...