Studies in the Novel, December 22nd, 2001
It scarcely needs mentioning that Sir Walter Scott is not known for his representations of cities. While London is projected as a destination for Jeanie Deans and Edward Waverley, or as a point of origin for Rob Roy's Frank Osbaldistone, the city itself is only sketchily realized as a place. London remains, most often, the unseen center from which power and culture emanate to the periphery, the civilized height against which the undeveloped low is defined. Even when Scott does describe London or other cities, he typically describes them through the eyes of a tourist--London as experienced by...
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