Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Shortened Forms of Reference; Introduction: Walter Scott at 250 – and Counting, Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Matthew Wickman; 1. Temporality and Historical Fiction Reading in Scott, Ina Ferris; 2. ‘I bide my time’: History and the Future Anterior in The Bride of Lammermoor, Penny Fielding; 3. Scott’s Anachronisms, Ian Duncan; 4. Scott, the Novel, and Capital in the Nineteenth Century, Anthony Jarrells; 5. The General Undertaker: Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte and the Prehistory of Neoliberalism, Celeste Langan; 6. Scott and the Art of Surplusage: Excess in the Narrative Poems, Alison Lumsden; 7. Performing History: Theatricality, Gender, the?Early Historical Novel and Scott, Fiona Price; 8. Where we Never Were: Women at Walter Scott’s Abbotsford, Caroline McCracken-Flesher; 9. Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene, Susan Oliver; 10. Redgauntlet: Speculation in History, Speculation in Nature, Matthew Wickman; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.