Walter Scott and the limits of language / by Lumsden, Alison

Table of Contents: “…"Living in a world of death" : Scott's narrative poems -- Speaking my language : Waverley, Guy Mannering and The Antiquary -- "Dying words and last confessions" : The Heart of Mid-Lothian -- Lost in translation : Ivanhoe, The Fortunes of Nigel and Peveril of the Peak -- "Narrative continued" : Redgauntlet and Chronicles of the Canongate -- Last words : Count Robert of Paris, Reliquiae Trotcosienses and Castle Dangerous.…”
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Walter Scott and modernity / by Lincoln, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Towards the Modern Nation: The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, and Waverley -- The Condition of England: Ivanhoe and Kenilworth -- Western Identities and the Orient: Guy Mannering and The Talisman -- Commerce, Civilisation, War, and the Highlands: Rob Roy and A Legend of the Wars of Montrose -- Liberal Dilemmas: Scott and Covenanting Tradition: The Tale of Old Mortality and The Heart of Mid-Lothian -- Liberal Dilemmas: Liberty or Alienation? …”
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Acts of modernity : the historical novel and effective communication, 1814-1901 / by Buchanan, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Meaning-making: a history of reading practices -- Heart of the matter: consequences of modernity in Clan Albin and Tales of My Landlord -- Nation of readers: chapbook versions of The Heart of Mid-Lothian -- How the West was one: historification from Waverly to The Pathfinder --Home and away: Leatherstocking reinvented in America and France -- "Spiders in a pot": harnessing juggernaut in Le pere Goriot -- Industrial productions: from editions populaires to a people's history -- Community lessons: Canadian tales of national progess -- History in action: dramatizations at Montreal, Paris, New York and London -- Conclusion: working the historical novel.…”

Scottish literature and postcolonial literature : comparative texts and critical perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Introduction; Part I Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality and Empire in Scottish Writing 1786-1914; CHAPTER 1 A 'Conceptual Alliance': 'Interculturation' in Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite; CHAPTER 2 'Almost the Same as Being Innocent': Celebrated Murderesses and National Narratives in Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; CHAPTER 3 Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro; CHAPTER 4 Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition.…”
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