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Walter Scott
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Sir Walter Scott
Redgauntlet and The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Sir Walter Scott
- Born in Edinburgh, raised in the Scottish Border country
- Fascinated by local balladry and folklore associated with Border warfare
- Used in his work a sense of history associated with a specific place and the sense that the past is kept alive with present oral tradition
His Works
His Works
- Often used the law to add dimension to his fiction (believed it to be the embodyment of changing social cultures)
- Authentic feature of the Scottish character were "daily melting...into those of her...ally"
- Protagonists mediate between heroic but violent old world and an emerging new world that will be safer and duller
- Preserving the last traces of traditional cultures and representing the iron laws of historical development
- Necessity of social progress, allure of backward past
- Shared heritage reunited fragmented nation
History and Folklore
History and Folklore
Lay of the Last Minstrel--
- Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch
- Duke of Monmoth
- Lady Branksome
- Goblin Gilpin Horner
Redgauntlet--
- Redgauntlet= Prelatist (episcopal and royalist)
- Against Covenanters (Presbyterians)
- Civil wars
- Killing years 1681-1685
- Folk legend: Claverhouse and Tarn Dalyell (royalists) both have diabolical powers
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