The Monastery (Walter Scott)

This is volume nine of a projected 30‐volume Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. It conforms to the format of the published volumes. The text of the novel is followed by an extensive essay on the text, an emendation list, a note on end‐of‐line hyphens, a historical note, explanatory notes and a glossary.

The essay on the text, replete with 78 footnotes, covers 45 pages, and has four sections. These deal with the genesis of The Monastery, the composition of the novel, later editions, and the present text.

The Monastery, first published in 1820, is not as...