The Hero of the Waverley Novels: With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition

by Alexander Welsh and Illustrated by: Welsh, Alexander

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601984
• ISBN13: 9780691601984
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"