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Rob Roy (Hardcover, Revised)
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Rob Roy (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
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Rob Roy is set in 1715, but it is less concerned with the Jacobite
Rising than with the economic and political conditions which
brought it about, and the remarkable entrepreneurial spirit of the
new Hanoverian capitalists which resisted it. It celebrates the
freebooting daring of the hero's father in the City of London and
the robust balancing of generosity and selfish calculation which is
required in successful enterprise, and which motivates one of
Scott's most lively creations, the Glasgow merchant Baillie Nicol
Jarvie. Rob Roy is nominally a retrospective autobiography written
by Frank Osbaldistone and is suffused with a sense of loss both
personal and cultural. The personal is the loss of his wife Diana;
the cultural is epitomised in Rob Roy who is the hunted victim of a
society richer and more powerful than his own. The text is based
upon the first edition, corrected with readings from the
manuscript, and is supported by comprehensive historical and
explanatory annotation.
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