The Hero of the Waverley Novels: With New Essays on Scott
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1. Verfasser: Welsh, Alexander (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Princeton Legacy Library
Literature in History
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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 M.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (269 pages)
ISBN:9781400863297
DOI:10.1515/9781400863297

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