Legitimate Histories

Legitimate Histories is an innovative reading of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic. Including analyses of such neglected works as The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, and Woodstock, as well as the more generally known Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, and Redgauntlet, it focuses on questions of narrative authority and historical authenticity.