This book explores how works like Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy percolated into all aspects of cultural and social life in the nineteenth century, and how his work continues to resonate into the present day even if Scott is no longer ...

The rhetoric of historical representation represents one of the first attempts to carry out a sustained textual analysis of historiographical practice.

Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of historical practice. This is especially evident in the various attempts made over the last two centuries to write an "alternative" history of everyday experience.

An English and updated version of the popular introduction to literary studies.