ABSTRACT

First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic.  The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historical perspective not normally available in one volume.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

part One|126 pages

From Lives of the Novelists

chapter 1|19 pages

Samuel Richardson

chapter 2|8 pages

Henry Fielding

chapter 3|9 pages

Tobias Smollett

chapter 4|2 pages

Oliver Goldsmith

chapter 5|4 pages

Laurence Sterne

chapter 6|5 pages

Henry Mackenzie

chapter 7|7 pages

Horace Walpole

chapter 8|5 pages

Clara Reeve

chapter 9|13 pages

Ann Radcliffe

chapter 10|7 pages

Alain Le Sage

chapter 11|5 pages

Charles Johnstone

chapter 12|6 pages

Robert Bage

chapter 13|13 pages

Jonathan Swift

chapter 14|14 pages

Daniel Defoe

chapter 15|5 pages

Charlotte Smith

part Two|154 pages

Occasional Essays and Reviews

chapter 18|8 pages

John de Lancaster: a Novel

chapter 19|9 pages

Emma: a Novel

chapter 20|16 pages

Tales of My Landlord, 1817

chapter 22|18 pages

Women: or Pour et Contre: A Tale

chapter 23|10 pages

The Omen

part Three|39 pages

From The Prefaces

chapter 27|13 pages

Authorship

chapter 28|2 pages

The Most Legitimate Plan

chapter 29|3 pages

On Contemporary Fiction

chapter 30|3 pages

The Historical Novel

chapter 31|6 pages

Methods of Construction

chapter 32|4 pages

On Popularity

chapter 33|7 pages

Under Interrogation