The Hero of the Waverley Novels : : With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition / / Alexander Welsh.

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 prescr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1993
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Expanded
Language:English
Series:Literature in History ; 244
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  • PREFACE
  • CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
  • I. ROMANCE
  • II. THE PASSIVE HERO
  • III. CHARACTER AND TOPOGRAPHY
  • IV. PROPERTY
  • V. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN
  • VI. ANXIETY
  • VII. ROB ROY
  • VIII. HONOR
  • IX. OLD MORTALITY
  • CONTRAST OF STYLES IN THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
  • HISTORY AND REVOLUTION IN OLD MORTALITY
  • PATRIARCHY, CONTRACT, AND REPRESSION IN SCOTT'S NOVELS
  • INDEX