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1) Paperback Book Old Mortality (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press. Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott´s Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time´. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland´s royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters´ extreme religious beliefs. He is torn between his love for a royalist´s granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen. As well as being a tale of divided loyalties, the novel is a crucial document in the cultural history of modern Scotland. Scott, himself a supporter of the union between Scotland and England, was trying to exorcise the violent past of a country uncomfortably coming to terms with its status as part of a modern United Kingdom. This novel is in itself a significant political document, in which Scott can be seen to be attempting to create a new centralist Scottish historiography, which is not the political consensus of his own time, the seventeenth century, or today.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 9-Jan-2009, 019283763X9780192837639, 920-390-790-7X0-040-130-3X0-930-670-8 
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