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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