description: Examining all of Scott's best-known books as well as many less familiar works, this critical biography offers a lively and provocative reassessment of the writer who was often considered "the greatest single imaginative genius of the nineteenth century." A.N. Wilson shows how Scott combinedhis life as a prolific novelist, poet, biographer, historian, and anthologist with that of a lawyer, landowner, border farmer, part-time soldier and paterfamilias . He also discusses the general indifference that has surrounded Scott in this century and reveals the distortions of his Victorianidolators, recapturing the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries.
language: English
title: The Laird of Abbotsford: A View of Sir Walter Scott
titlecomplete: The Laird of Abbotsford: A View of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford Lives)
characters: Walter Scott, Charlotte Scott
genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History
ratings_count: 11
places: Abbotsford, The Borders, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
publisher: Oxford University Press