Description: This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Brief description: Fiona Robertson is Horace Walpole Professor of English Literature at St Mary's University College and a former Reader in English at the University of Durham and Research Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. She has published several editorial and critical works on Walter Scott among a range of studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature.
Review Quotes:
The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott successfully reorients Scott criticism for generations of readers by offering a comprehensive and cohesive exploration of the man and his work in their social, historical, and artistic totalities.
--J. Greg Matthews, Cataloging Librarian, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA "Reference Reviews, Vol 28, No 2 "