The Two Drovers: A Short Story

x, 35 pp. "The Two Drovers" is set at a period within Scott's lifetime, towards the end of the eighteenth century. What is historical in the story is the representation of cultural conflict at a specific period in the past. Scott dramatizes history in the story much as he does in his novels: by placing in conflict a group of representative figures at a moment of historical change. The history which stands behind the action presented is the long, often violent, process by which, from one point of view, a feudal society was civilized; but by which, from another viewpoint, Scotland was brought under English hegemony."