Welsh, Alexander
The hero of the Waverley novels: with new essays on Scott - New Jersey Princeton University Press 1992 - 250p. - Literature in History .
Includes index.
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.
0691015333
Scott, Walter
Heroes in literature
Scotland
Literature
Waverly Novels- English literature
Criticism
Characters and characteristics
823.7 / WEL/H
The hero of the Waverley novels: with new essays on Scott - New Jersey Princeton University Press 1992 - 250p. - Literature in History .
Includes index.
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.
0691015333
Scott, Walter
Heroes in literature
Scotland
Literature
Waverly Novels- English literature
Criticism
Characters and characteristics
823.7 / WEL/H