Waverley

by Walter Scott

Overview

Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first published anonymously in 1814 and was Scott's first novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781022981270
Publisher:	Anson Street Press
Publication date:	03/28/2025
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Claire Lamont is a General Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. She has published widely on Jane Austen and Romantic literature, and has edited Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and Austen's Sense and Sensibility for Oxford World's Classics.

Kathryn Sutherland is the editor of Scott's Redgauntlet, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and Austen-Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections for Oxford World's Classics. She has created a digitial edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts (2010), the print edition of which is due to be published by OUP in 2014. She is the author of Jane Austen's Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (OUP, 2005).

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