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The Hero of the Waverley Novels : With New Essays on Scott.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in Italian culture--Literature in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bibliographical Note; Preface; Chronological List of the Waverley Novels ; I. ROMANCE; 1. Fiction as Projection ; 2. Novel or Romance; 3. Moral Truth; II. THE PASSIVE HERO; 4. Two Soliloquies; 5. Possible Exceptions; 6. Rationale; III. CHARACTER AND TOPOGRAPHY; 7. Dark Heroes; 8. Blonde and Brunette; 9. The Highland Line; IV. PROPERTY; 10. Nature and Convention; 11. Property in 1814; 12. The Romance of Property; V. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN; 13. The Trial of Jeanie Deans; 14. Society as an Abstraction; 15. Jeanie Deans Visits the Sick; VI. ANXIETY; 16. Authority.
- 17. The Emotion of the Hero18. Prudence; VII. ROB ROY; 19. Francis Osbaldistone; 20. The Plot; 21. Tentative Fiction; VIII. HONOR; 22. Rank in Life; 23. Self-Sacrifice; 24. Immortality; IX. OLD MORTALITY; 25. Henry Morton; 26. Life and Death; 27. The Denouement; Contrast of Styles in the Waverley Novels; History and Revolution in Old Mortality; Patriarchy, Contract, and Repression in Scott's Novels; Index.