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Old Mortality (Paperback)
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Old Mortality (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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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
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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, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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