With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair.
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been
recognised as containing some of Scott’s finest writing
and most engaging, fully realised 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-glamorised, 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 novel’s historical
context and a glossary of Scottish words and phrases
used by Scott’s colourful, vernacular characters.
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