Waverley

by Walter Scott, Andrew Hook (Editor)

Overview

Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands. When he finds himself drawn to the charismatic chieftain Fergus Mac-Ivor and his beautiful sister Flora, their ardent loyalty to Prince Charles Edward Stuart appeals to Waverley's romantic nature and he allies himself with their cause - a move that proves highly dangerous for the young officer. Scott's first novel was a huge success when it was published in 1814 and marked the start of his extraordinary literary success. With its vivid depiction of the wild Highland landscapes and patriotic clansmen, Waverley is a brilliant evocation of the old Scotland - a world Scott believed was swiftly disappearing in the face of a new, modern era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141907352
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	08/26/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	949,751
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771, educated there and called to the bar in 1792. Having developed an early interest in BOrder tales and ballads he spent much of his free time exploring the Border country, and in 1796 published his first work - a translation of Burger's 'Lenore' - anonymously. He began to publish wroks under his own name in 1802 while holiday well-respected offices such as Sheriff of Selkirkshire. Having refused the laureateship in 1813, and being eclipsed by Byron as a poet, Scott began to write novels - again anonymously to start with. He died in 1832.

Andrew Hook is Bradley Professor of English literature at the University of Glasgow. He has also edited (with Judith Hook) Charlotte Bronte's Shirley for Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sir Walter Scott: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Abbreviations for Works Consulted for Annotations

Waverley
Scott’s Notes to Waverley,Volumes One and Two

Appendix A: Selected Reviews of Waverley (1814–31)

1. From the Quarterly Review (July 1814) [John Wilson Croker]
2. From the Scots Magazine (July 1814)
3. From the British Critic (August 1814)
4. From the Antijacobin Review and Magazine (September 1814)
5. From the Scourge (October 1814)
6. From the Edinburgh Review (November 1814) [Francis Jeffrey]
7. From the Monthly Review (November 1814)
8. From the Critical Review (March 1815)
9. From the London Magazine (June 1829)
10. From the North American Review (April 1831)

Appendix B: The Union of 1707

1. Jonathan Swift, “Verses Said to Be Written on the Union” (1707)
2. From Daniel Defoe, A Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–27)
3. From Daniel Defoe, A Review of the State of the British Nation (1707)
4. “The Union” (1819)

Appendix C: The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745

1. Tobias Smollett, “Tears of Scotland” (1746)
2. Songs from The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819)
1. “Here’s to the King, Sir”
2. “The King shall enjoy his own again”
3. Songs from Jacobite Songs and Ballads (1887)
1. “Maclean’s Welcome”
2. “Will he no come back again”
3. “O’er the Water to Charlie”
4. From Henry Fielding, The History of the Present Rebellion in Scotland (1745)
5. From Walter Scott, Redgauntlet. A Tale of the Eighteenth Century (1824)

Appendix D: Scottish Folklore and Legend in Contemporary Literature

1. From James Macpherson, “The Battle of Lora” (1803)
2. From Elizabeth Hamilton, The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808)
3. From Anne MacVicar Grant, Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811)

Select Bibliography and Works Cited

Editorial Reviews

The well-chosen additional materials in this new edition of Waverley will prove illuminating to readers of Scott in numerous ways. Contemporaneous reviews reveal a wide range of perspectives on this historical novel; selections by Defoe and Swift express conflicting attitudes toward the Union of 1707. In addition, sections on the Rebellion of 1745 and on the customs of the Highlanders make available relevant but otherwise not easily available texts that further enrich this edition both for scholars of the novel and for student readers.” — Frank Palmeri, University of Miami

“Walter Scott’s Waverley is not an antique, but a revolutionary work that established the novel not just as an ideal type of history but as history itself: the psychology, the furnishings, the environment of the transition from militant to commercial society. Broadview’s edition will help to reinstate the vivid creativeness of Scott in imagining a past and its people—not to speak of his anticipation of multi-media only a few years before the photograph.” — Christopher Harvie, historian and Member of the Scottish Parliament

From the Publisher

The new edition of the Waverley Novels is important not just for those interested in Scott and Scottish literature, but also for those in the fields of bibliography, textual criticism and the History of the Book... If any scholar was well placed to establish an 'ideal text' of Waverley, it is Peter Garside... The meticulous care with which the numerous emendations to the texts have been considered makes these volumes a landmark series for modern editing, as well as serving the practical purpose of restoring Scott's texts to their original form.

Scottish Literary Review - Fiona Stafford

"Walter Scott's Waverley is not an antique, but a revolutionary work that established the novel not just as an ideal type of history but as history itself: the psychology, the furnishings, the environment of the transition from militant to commercial society. Broadview's edition will help to reinstate the vivid creativeness of Scott in imagining a past and its people – not to speak of his anticipation of multi-media only a few years before the photograph."

Christopher Harvie

"The well-chosen additional materials in this new edition of Waverley will prove illuminating to readers of Scott in numerous ways. Contemporaneous reviews reveal a wide range of perspectives on this historical novel; selections by Defoe and Swift express conflicting attitudes toward the Union of 1707. In addition, sections on the Rebellion of 1745 and on the customs of the Highlanders make available relevant but otherwise not easily available texts that further enrich this edition both for scholars of the novel and for student readers."

Frank Palmeri University of Miami