Sir Walter Scott Scottish Novelist 1771 - 1832 Sir Walter Scott was born on August 15, 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scott created and popularized historical novels in a series called the Waverley Novels. In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters so the reader enters into the lives of both great and ordinary people caught up in violent, dramatic changes in history. Scott's work shows the influence of the 18th century enlightenment. He believed every human was basically …showed first 75 words of 421 total…

…showed last 75 words of 421 total…analysis of Scott's relation to Scottish literature and of his use of the English and Scots languages. Donald Davie, The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott (1961), analyzes Scott's debt to Maria Edgeworth and others and critically analyzes some of the novels. Edgar Johnson, Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown, 2 vol. (1970), a very full and detailed biography with extensive critical commentary; David Brown, Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination (1979), a reevaluation of Scott as a historical novelist.