PREFACE -- I. STRUCTURE DEFINED -- II. THE ROMANCES -- Comic Romances -- Tragic Romances -- III. THE CHRONICLES -- IV. THE MEDIOCRE HERO AND HISTORY -- Function of the Protagonists -- Function and Meaning of History -- V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: STRUCTURE AS RHETORIC -- APPENDIX A: List of Scott's Fiction -- APPENDIX B: Classification of Novels -- APPENDIX C: Significantly Recurring Elements -- APPENDIX D: Comic Romances Having Crucial Structure -- APPENDIX E: Comic Romances Having Climactic Structure -- APPENDIX F: Summary of the Chronicles not Discussed in Chapter III -- APPENDIX G: Thematically Significant Contrast of Cultures -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.