TY  - BOOK
AU  - Welsh, Alexander
TI  - The hero of the Waverley novels: with new essays on Scott 
T2  - Literature in History
SN  - 0691015333
U1  - 823.7 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Scott, Walter
KW  - Heroes in literature
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Literature
KW  - Waverly Novels- English literature
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Characters and characteristics
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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
ER  -