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Walter Scott Old Mortality (Paperback) Oxford World's Classics. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Title: Old Mortality. Author: Walter Scott. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Further DetailsTitle: Old Mortality Condition: New Description: Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extreme religious beliefs. He is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen.As well as being a tale of divided loyalties, the novel is a crucial document in the cultural history of modern Scotland. Scott, himself a supporter of the union between Scotland and England, was trying to exorcise the violent past of a country uncomfortably coming to terms with its status as part of a modern United Kingdom. This novel is in itself a significant political document, in which Scott can be seen to be attempting to create a new centralist Scottish historiography, which is not the political consensus of his own time, the seventeenth century, or today. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Author: Walter Scott EAN: 9780199555307 Contributor: Jane Stevenson (Edited by), Peter Davidson (Edited by) ISBN: 9780199555307 Format: Paperback Item Height: 196mm Item Length: 128mm Item Width: 27mm ISBN-10: 0199555303 Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: Fiction Publisher: Oxford University Press Release Date: 05/28/2009 Language: English Series: Oxford World's Classics Topic: Classic Fiction, Romance Item Weight: 423g Release Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
