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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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 |
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