| Description |
viii, 128 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Landmarks of world literature |
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Landmarks of world literature.
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| Contents |
1. Scott's changing world and the making of Waverley. 1. The Napoleonic years. 2. The Age of History and the Scottish Enlightenment. 3. Changing Scotland. 4. 'These giddy-paced times' and the Age of the Museum. 5. Changing Scott. 6. Scott, the great coaginator -- 2. Waverley as story. 7. New journeys, new plot. 8. New encounters, new cast. 9. The hero as intermediary. 10. Previous fiction of the Forty-five. 11. Between highland and lowland, stasis and change. 12. Between prejudice and cultural tolerance. 13. Between rebellion and civil order, nationhood and Union. 14. Between romance and realism -- 3. Waverley as history. 15. Historical fiction and history as temporal structures. 16. The Forty-five: a modern history. 17. The silences of Waverley. 18. The turn from 'drum and trumpet' history. 19. The civilian on the battlefield. 20. The eclipse of epic and ballad. 21. Historical romance: a new use of the past. 22. Metahistory: the historians in the historical novel |
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4. Waverley as initiator. 23. The novelty of Scott's historical novel. 24. Waverley and the Waverley Novels. 25. The influence on the early European historical novel. 26. The influence on European realism. 27. The influence on nineteenth-century historiography. 28. Waverley as bestseller -- 5. Conclusions. 29. A fourfold landmark of world literature. 30. Scott, the verbal museum and us |
| Notes |
Cover title: Scott--Waverley |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-128) |
| Subject |
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Waverley novels
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Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction, Scottish -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
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Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 -- Literature and the rebellion
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| SUBJECT |
Scotland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79123936 -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
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Scotland -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116914
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Scotland -- History -- 18th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118853 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
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| LC no. |
92042217 |
| ISBN |
0521372917 (hardback) |
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0521378885 (paperback) |
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