Redgauntlet (Annotated)

Redgauntlet (1824) is one of Walter Scott's most intricate historical novels, returning to the lingering afterlife of Jacobitism in mid-eighteenth-century Britain. Through the intertwined fortunes of Darsie Latimer and Alan Fairford, Scott blends epistolary narrative, legal comedy, Gothic suspense, and political romance. Its famous inset tale, "Wandering Willie's Tale," displays Scott's command of...