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Waverley Novels

Anonim

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0461720752

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Waverley

Walter Scott

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UFL:31262041286641

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The Hero of the Waverley Novels

Alexander Welsh

Author : Alexander Welsh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400863297

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The Hero of the Waverley Novels by Alexander Welsh Pdf

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. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Walter Scott's Books

J.H. Alexander

Author : J.H. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351814942

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Walter Scott's Books by J.H. Alexander Pdf

Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question of Scott's 'circumbendibus' style head on, suggesting that it is actually one of the most exciting aspects of his fiction: indeed, what Ian Duncan has called the 'elaborately literary narrative', at first sight a barrier, is in a sense what the novels are primarily 'about'. The book aims to show how inventive, witty, and entertaining Scott's richly allusive style is; how he keeps his varied readership on board with his own inexhaustible variety; and how he allows proponents of a wide range of positions to have their say, using a detached, ironic, but never cynical narrative voice to undermine the more rigid and inhumane rhetoric. The Introduction outlines this approach and sets the book in the context of earlier and current Scott criticism. It also deals with some practical issues, including forms of reference and the distinctive use of the term 'Authorial'. The four chapters are designed to zoom in progressively from the general to the particular. 'Resources' explores the printed material available to Scott in his library and gives an overview of the way he uses it in his fiction. 'Style' confronts objections to the 'circumbendibus' Scott and shows how his Ciceronian style with its penchant for polysyllables enables him to embrace a wide range of rhetoric relayed in a detached but not cynical Authorial voice. 'Strategies' explores how he keeps his very wide audience on board by a complex bonding between characters, readers, and Author, and stresses the extraordinary variety of exuberant inventiveness with which he handles intertextual allusions. 'Mottoes' examines the most remarkable of Scott's intertextual devices, the chapter epigraphs, bringing into play the approaches developed in the previous chapters. The brief concluding 'Envoi' moves out again to the widest possible perspective, suggesting how readers should now be able to move on to, or return to, the novels and the critical conversation, with an appreciation of the central importance of the ludic for an appreciation of Scott in a world once again threatened by inhumane and humorless rigidities.

Rob Roy

Walter Scott

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1DXV

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Sir Walter Scott's Waverley

Jenni Calder

Author : Jenni Calder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1910021253

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Sir Walter Scott's Waverley by Jenni Calder Pdf

New and controversial major redaction of Walter Scott's Waverley, set in Scotland in 1745, the year of the Jacobite uprising.

Quentin Durward; Volume I

Walter Scott

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018233822

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Quentin Durward; Volume I by Walter Scott Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Waverley Novels: Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112041779742

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The Waverley Novels: Waverley

Sir Walter Scott

Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112041713436

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The Waverley Novels: Waverley by Sir Walter Scott Pdf

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet

Walter Scott

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019196864

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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet by Walter Scott Pdf

Waverly Novels: Woodstock

Walter Scott

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101063582694

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Waverly Novels: Woodstock by Walter Scott Pdf

Waverley

Walter Scott

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770482685

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Waverley by Walter Scott Pdf

Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley enjoyed tremendous popularity upon its first publication. The novel is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore Charles Edward Stuart to the British throne. It portrays the doomed rising from the perspective of the hero, Edward Waverley, who travels to Scotland and is drawn to the Jacobite cause by a clan chieftain, his beautiful sister, and Charles Edward Stuart himself. Appendices to this edition include material on the Jacobite Rebellion and related conflicts, Scottish folklore, and a broad selection of contemporary reviews of Waverley.