Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

A selective list of articles on the British novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Introduction

"Sir Walter Scott." The Victorian Web. Ed. George Landow.

Uglow, Nathan. "Sir Walter Scott." Literary Encyclopedia, 27 March 2002. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to the poet, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field, and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription.

Uglow, Nathan. On Scott's contribution to the historical novel; On Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802); Waverley, Or, Tis Sixty Years Since (1814); Old Mortality (1816); Rob Roy (1817); The Bride of Lammermoor (1819); A Legend of Montrose (1819); The Pirate (1821); Redgauntlet (1824). Literary Encyclopedia.

A survey of Scottish literature with a brief discussion of Scott, from U of St. Andrews.

Literary Criticism

Ali, Zahra A Hussein. "Adjusting the borders of self: Sir Walter Scott's The Two Drovers." Papers on Language and Literature, 2001.

Kernohan, R.D. "'Will ye no' come back again?' whatever happened to Sir Walter Scott?" Contemporary Review May 1993.

Hatfield, James Taft. "Goethe and the Ku-Klux Klan." On the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Goetz von Berlichingen on Sir Walter Scott's novel, Anne of Geierstein, and with the influence of that novel by Scott on readers in the U.S. south and in particular on the Ku-Klux Klan. PMLA 37, 4 (Dec. 1922) pp. 735-9.

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