Welsh The Hero of the Waverley Novels

With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6329-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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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Autoren/Hrsg.

Welsh, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bibliographical Note

Preface

Chronological list of the Waverley Novels

I Romance 1

1 Fiction as Projection 1

2 Novel or Romance 6

3 Moral Truth 12

II The Passive Hero 21

4 Two Soliloquies 21

5 Possible Exceptions 26

6 Rationale 31

III Character and Topography 40

7 Dark Heroes 40

8 Blonde and Brunette 48

9 The Highland Line 56

IV Property 63

10 Nature and Convention 63

11 Property in 1814 68

12 The Romance of Property 77

V The Heart of Mid-Lothian 86

13 The Trial of Jeanie Deans 86

14 Society as an Abstraction 92

15 Jeanie Deans Visits the Sick 96

VI Anxiety 101

16 Authority 101

17 The Emotion of the Hero 107

18 Prudence 112

VII Rob Roy 118

19 Francis Osbaldistone 118

20 The Plot 123

21 Tentative Fiction 127

VIII Honor 134

22 Rank in life 134

23 Self-Sacrifice 139

24 Immortality 148

IX Old Mortality 155

25 Henry Morton 155

26 Life and Death 164

27 The Denouement 171

Contrast of Styles in the Waverley Novels 178

History and Revolution in Old Mortality 191

Patriarchy, Contract, and Repression in Scott's Novels 213

Index 243