9781557862310: The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) - AbeBooks
Modern biography can be said to have begun with John Gibson Lockhart's "Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart" in 1838. But Scott - the 'Great Unknown' - has always presented challenges to the biographer. Layers of myth (much of it manufactured by the faithful son-in-law Lockhart) continues to protect him from posterity. There is also the sheer size of Scott's achievements as poet, novelist, man of letters, and self-made Laird of Abbotsford. The two standard lives - Lockhart's, and Edgar Johnson's published in 1970 - run to some three-quarters of a million words apiece. Finally, there...
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