Robert Mayer was educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Oklahoma State University, where he was for many years Director of the Screen Studies Program. He is the author of History of the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe and the editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Modern Philology, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ELH, The Seventeenth Century, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He lives in New Mexico and is at work on a study of the novelist Philip Roth, the poet Philip Levine, and the filmmaker Barry Levinson.

Mayer's archival labour at the National Library of Scotland uncovers much interesting material and his study gives a strong sense of how protean a figure Scott was. ... This study deserves praise for its detailed readings of Scott's correspondence - for distinguishing, for example, between the warmer rhetoric of Scott's interactions with Scottish female poets and the formality of his discussions with English male poets.

• 1: Introduction: Letters and the Histories of Authorship, Reading, and Fame 2: Intimates 3: Colleagues 4: Clients 5: Fans 6: Conclusion: Scott and Fame

Robert Mayer was educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Oklahoma State University, where he was for many years Director of the Screen Studies Program. He is the author of History of the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe and the editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Modern Philology, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ELH, The Seventeenth Century, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He lives in New Mexico and is at work on a study of the novelist Philip Roth, the poet Philip Levine, and the filmmaker Barry Levinson.

Mayer's archival labour at the National Library of Scotland uncovers much interesting material and his study gives a strong sense of how protean a figure Scott was. ... This study deserves praise for its detailed readings of Scott's correspondence - for distinguishing, for example, between the warmer rhetoric of Scott's interactions with Scottish female poets and the formality of his discussions with English male poets.

• 1: Introduction: Letters and the Histories of Authorship, Reading, and Fame 2: Intimates 3: Colleagues 4: Clients 5: Fans 6: Conclusion: Scott and Fame

Robert Mayer was educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Oklahoma State University, where he was for many years Director of the Screen Studies Program. He is the author of History of the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe and the editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Modern Philology, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ELH, The Seventeenth Century, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He lives in New Mexico and is at work on a study of the novelist Philip Roth, the poet Philip Levine, and the filmmaker Barry Levinson.

Mayer's archival labour at the National Library of Scotland uncovers much interesting material and his study gives a strong sense of how protean a figure Scott was. ... This study deserves praise for its detailed readings of Scott's correspondence - for distinguishing, for example, between the warmer rhetoric of Scott's interactions with Scottish female poets and the formality of his discussions with English male poets.

• 1: Introduction: Letters and the Histories of Authorship, Reading, and Fame 2: Intimates 3: Colleagues 4: Clients 5: Fans 6: Conclusion: Scott and Fame