Redgauntlet

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Redgauntlet is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott that blends adventure, political intrigue, and epistolary narrative around a fictional Jacobite plot in 18th-century Scotland.

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instanceOf historical novel
author Sir Walter Scott
surface form: Walter Scott
countryOfOrigin Scotland
featuresHistoricalContext Jacobitism
surface form: Jacobite movement
firstPublicationYear 1824
genre adventure fiction
epistolary novel
historical fiction
hasAdaptation radio drama
television adaptation
hasCharacter Alan Fairford
Darsie Latimer
Hugh Redgauntlet
Duke of Rothesay (Jacobite)
surface form: Prince Charles Edward Stuart
hasCriticalReception considered one of Scott's more complex Waverley novels
hasFictionalEvent fictional Jacobite plot
hasForm novel
hasLiterarySignificance explores aftermath of Jacobite risings
late Waverley novel
hasMotif disguise
friendship
secret plots
hasNarrativePerspective first-person letters
third-person narration
hasStructure letters and narrative chapters
hasTitleCharacter Hugh Redgauntlet
influencedBy Jacobite history of Scotland
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Romanticism
mainTheme Jacobitism
identity
loyalty
political intrigue
narrativeForm epistolary narrative
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Waverley Novels
placeOfPublication Edinburgh
publisher Archibald Constable & Co.
surface form: Archibald Constable and Co.
settingPeriod 18th century
settingPlace Scotland
subjectMatter Jacobite conspiracy in Scotland
timeSettingDetail after the 1745 Jacobite rising

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Sir Walter Scott notableWork Redgauntlet