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The Hero of the Waverley Novels – With New Essays on Scott: With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition (Literature in History) - Hardcover
One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed for the propertied classes. Analyzing the "passive hero"--the protagonist who is acted upon by outside forces--he shows how Scott became such a powerful influence for nineteenth-century literature and history. Welsh has updated his book with an essay on history and revolution in Old Mortality, another on repression and the social contract in the novels, and an afterword on the contrast of styles.
Originally published in 1993.
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"In this brilliant and closely reasoned book the hero of the Waverley Novels is for the first time made interesting, significant, and convincing; but Mr. Welsh has also confirmed . . . Scott's own ambivalence about the adequacy of society to fulfill the profoundest needs of the individual."--Morse Peckham, Saturday Review
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This study draws upon the entire canon of Sir Walter Scott's fiction in order to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behaviour prescribed for the propertied classes. The text has been revised with new essays on history and revolution, repression, social contract and style contrasts.
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0691069581
- ISBN 13 9780691069586
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages268
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