Rob Roy (Afterward)
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Description
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognized as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realized characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorized, unprincipled predator to others. Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventures of his fictional hero, Frank Osbaldistone, amid the political turmoil of England and Scotland in 1715. With characteristic care Scott reconstructs the period and settings so as to place Rob Roy and the Scotland he inhabits amid conflicting moral, economic and historical forces. This edition features, besides a new critical introduction and extensive explanatory notes, an essay outlining clearly the novels historical context and a glossary of Scottish words and phrases used by Scott's colorful, vernacular characters.
ISBN
0451526236
Publication Date
1995
Publisher
Penguin
City
New York, NY
Keywords
Rob Roy, Scotland, Fiction
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles
Recommended Citation
Rogers, Deborah D. and Scott, Walter, "Rob Roy (Afterward)" (1995). Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications. 288.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/288