The Hero of the Waverley Novels: With New Essays on Scott: With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition - Rilegato

Welsh, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0691069581 ISBN 13: 9780691069586

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

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

Contenuti:

	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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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0691069581
• ISBN 13: 9780691069586
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 276