Waverley

ISBN-13: 9781551118956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 538 str.

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Set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1845, which sought to restore Charles Edward Stuart to the British throne, this novel portrays the doomed rising from the perspective of the hero, Edward Waverley, who travels to Scotland and is drawn to the Jacobite ca

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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)

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