Rob Roy
by Walter Scott | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0192817639 Global Overview for this book
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First published 1817.
Despite its title, this fiction recounts more the experiences of one Frank Osbaldistone than any sustained history of the life of its eponymous outlaw, the legendary “Scottish Robin Hood.” And yet, this distinctly Scottish romance was influential not only in consolidating the disparate accounts of the life of Rob Roy MacGregor, but also in mythologizing the Scottish highlands as the place of sublime but barbaric attraction for many English tourists. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Scott’s narrative tracks Frank’s experiences as he journeys from his family home in London, to his uncle’s residence in Northumbria, and on to Glasgow and the highlands of Scotland. Frank crosses the Scottish border in order to retrieve the assets of his father. This general movement northward brings with it exposure to a range of colorful personalities, not least the legendary Rob Roy, who assists Frank in the recovery of the assets.
Much of the narrative impetus derives from the conflicts and divisions that had plagued Great Britain ever since the Act of Union of 1707. But the vision that Scott ultimately offers up in Rob Roy is one in which the tensions between commerce and poetry, English and Scottish, Jacobite and Hanoverian, highland and lowland, Catholic and Protestant have been successfully reconciled. — Dale Townshend in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Despite its title, this fiction recounts more the experiences of one Frank Osbaldistone than any sustained history of the life of its eponymous outlaw, the legendary “Scottish Robin Hood.” And yet, this distinctly Scottish romance was influential not only in consolidating the disparate accounts of the life of Rob Roy MacGregor, but also in mythologizing the Scottish highlands as the place of sublime but barbaric attraction for many English tourists. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Scott’s narrative tracks Frank’s experiences as he journeys from his family home in London, to his uncle’s residence in Northumbria, and on to Glasgow and the highlands of Scotland. Frank crosses the Scottish border in order to retrieve the assets of his father. This general movement northward brings with it exposure to a range of colorful personalities, not least the legendary Rob Roy, who assists Frank in the recovery of the assets.
Much of the narrative impetus derives from the conflicts and divisions that had plagued Great Britain ever since the Act of Union of 1707. But the vision that Scott ultimately offers up in Rob Roy is one in which the tensions between commerce and poetry, English and Scottish, Jacobite and Hanoverian, highland and lowland, Catholic and Protestant have been successfully reconciled. — Dale Townshend in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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