Sir Walter Scott at Iv Mourne University

Affiliation and Filiation: The Nation-Family in Scott’s Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein

This article studies Sir Walter Scott’s use of the family-as-nation trope in Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein. The importance of this trope in his figuration of nationhood is discerned by carrying out a close reading of the texts and placing them in their historical context, which primarily consists of a comparison with Edmund Burke and Maria Edgeworth. Consequently, his position is revealed as b...

Sir Walter Scott: the Wounded Falcon

So much has been written about the Great Unknown, so many people have visited Abbotsford, so many have, in the past, read the Waverley Novels, that one wonders that anyone could find it worth while to pen yet another account of the life of that painful genius, Sir Walter Scott, and it was with some trepidation that your reviewer opened this book, certain that so small a volume would be trite, o...

L'Enseignement de la Médecine en France des Origines à nos Jours

So much has been written about the Great Unknown, so many people have visited Abbotsford, so many have, in the past, read the Waverley Novels, that one wonders that anyone could find it worth while to pen yet another account of the life of that painful genius, Sir Walter Scott, and it was with some trepidation that your reviewer opened this book, certain that so small a volume would be trite, o...

Doctors in Parliament

Eleven medical men, or at least eleven men holding medical qualifications, sat in the House of Commons in the Parliament of 1900-1905. They comprised three Unionists, Sir Robert Finlay, Sir John Batty Tnke, and Dr. Rntherfoord Harris; four Liberals, Sir Walter Foster, Dr. Farquharson, Dr. Price, and Dr. Hutchinson ; and three Nationalists, Drs. Macdonnell, Ambrose, and Thompson; while the eleve...

Sir Walter James Buchanan