Descendants Of Waverley

Descendants of Waverley examines contemporary novelists’ combination of historical authority and narrative art to create authentic and accessible depictions of the past. This technique, the “romance of history,” challenges conventional theories that the novel as a genre erased the romance. Individual chapters establish the critical framework, analyze the strategies that authors use to romance history, and demonstrate the subgenres that exist in current historical fiction. While the author does not consider Walter Scott to be the inventor of historical fiction, she demonstrates the ways in which contemporary fiction’s techniques reflect the form of the genre that Scott both developed and theorized in the Waverley novels (1814–1832). In writing his “historical romances,” Scott drew on the forms of the fictions that preceded his work, especially Gothic fiction, and was influenced by the fluid definitions of “romance” that permeated the theorizing of the novel and its development in the eighteenth century, where fiction was described as evolving from and replacing romances and referred to as “romances” themselves. She begins by tracing this history and moves on to discuss contemporary fiction, both as technique, in the uses of intertextuality, and in as form, in the increasing hybridity of contemporary fiction. This hybridity is reflected in such forms as the historical detective novel, the embedded narrative, and the biographical novel; the pedagogical elements inherent in the historical novel before Scott’s oeuvre continue into the present. The book ends with the recent phenomenon of historical fantasy; in this subgenre, the traits of more conventional historical fiction, such as intertextuality and the tension between the familiar and strange, combine with a playful form of fantasy that releases revenants among the Luddites and wizards into the Battle of Waterloo. John Frow’s theory of the slipperiness of genre is a critical component for explicating the most recent metamorphoses of historical fiction. The critical framework also develops from recent and eighteenth-century histories of the novel, twentieth- and twenty-first-century theories of Scott’s influence, and contemporary writers’ own reflections on what they do when they write historical novels.

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Table of Contents EDITOR'S NOTE. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS GENERAL PREFACE TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS FRAGMENT OF A ROMANCE WHICH WAS TO HAVE BEEN ENTITLED THOMAS THE RHYMER. CHAPTER I. THE LORD OF ENNERDALE. IN A FRAGMENT OF A LETTER FROM JOHN B, ESQ., OF THAT ILK, TO WILLIAM G, F.R.S.E. "Journal of Jan Von Eulen. No. II. BY THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY. CHAPTER IV. A HUNTING PARTY.—AN ADVENTURE.—A DELIVERANCE. CHAPTER V. BRIDAL SONG. No. III. ANECDOTE OF SCHOOL DAYS, UPON WHICH MR. THOMAS SCOTT PROPOSED TO FOUND A TALE OF FICTION. WAVERLEY; OR, 'T IS SIXTY YEARS SINCE. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION TO WAVERLEY. INTRODUCTION PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION THE AUTHOR'S ADDRESS TO ALL IN GENERAL WAVERLEY OR 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE Volume I. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II WAVERLEY-HONOUR—A RETROSPECT CHAPTER III EDUCATION CHAPTER IV CASTLE-BUILDING CHAPTER V CHOICE OF A PROFESSION CHAPTER IV THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY CHAPTER VII A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE CHAPTER IX MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS CHAPTER X ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER CHAPTER XI THE BANQUET CHAPTER XII REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION CHAPTER XIII A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST Saint Swithin's Chair CHAPTER XIV A DISCOVERY—WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN CHAPTER XV A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER XVI AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS CHAPTER XVII THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER CHAPTER XVIII WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY CHAPTER XIX THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION CHAPTER XX A HIGHLAND FEAST CHAPTER XXI THE CHIEFTAIN'S SISTER CHAPTER XXII HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY CHAPTER XXIII WAVERLEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH CHAPTER XXIV A STAG-HUNT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER XXV NEWS FROM ENGLAND CHAPTER XXVI AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT CHAPTER XXVII UPON THE SAME SUBJECT CHAPTER XXVIII A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN CHAPTER XXIX WAVERLEY'S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR To an Oak Tree WAVERLEY OR 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE VOLUME II. CHAPTER I SHOWS THAT THE LOSS OF A HORSE'S SHOE MAY BE A SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE CHAPTER II AN EXAMINATION CHAPTER III A CONFERENCE AND THE CONSEQUENCE CHAPTER IV A CONFIDANT CHAPTER V THINGS MEND A LITTLE CHAPTER VI A VOLUNTEER SIXTY YEARS SINCE CHAPTER VII AN INCIDENT CHAPTER VIII WAVERLEY IS STILL IN DISTRESS CHAPTER IX A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE CHAPTER X THE JOURNEY IS CONTINUED CHAPTER XI AN OLD AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE CHAPTER XII THE MYSTERY BEGINS TO BE CLEARED UP CHAPTER XIII A SOLDIER'S DINNER CHAPTER XIV THE BALL CHAPTER XV THE MARCH CHAPTER XVI AN INCIDENT GIVES RISE TO UNAVAILING REFLECTIONS CHAPTER XVII THE EVE OF BATTLE CHAPTER XVIII THE CONFLICT CHAPTER XIX AN UNEXPECTED EMBARRASSMENT CHAPTER VII THE ENGLISH PRISONER CHAPTER XXI RATHER UNIMPORTANT CHAPTER XXII INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS CHAPTER XXIII INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE CHAPTER XXIV FERGUS A SUITOR CHAPTER XXV 'TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER' CHAPTER XXVI A BRAVE MAN IN SORROW CHAPTER XXVII EXERTION CHAPTER XXVIII THE MARCH CHAPTER XXIX THE CONFUSION OF KING AGRAMANT'S CAMP CHAPTER XXX A SKIRMISH CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS CHAPTER XXXII A JOURNEY TO LONDON CHAPTER XXXIII WHAT'S TO BE DONE NEXT? CHAPTER XXXIV DESOLATION CHAPTER XXXV COMPARING OF NOTES CHAPTER XXXVI MORE EXPLANATION CHAPTER XXXVII Now is Cupid a child of conscience—he makes restitution.—SHAKSPEARE CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX To morrow? O that's sudden!—Spare him, spare him'—SHAKSPEARE CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI DULCE DOMUM CHAPTER XLII This is no mine ain house, I ken by the bigging o't—Old Song. CHAPTER XLIII A POSTSCRIPT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE NOTES—Volume I. GLOSSARY—Volume I. NOTES—Volume II. GLOSSARY—Volume II.

In Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place Dani Napton examines the intricacies and contradictions of Scott’s counter-revolutionary politics of place and his representations of sovereignty, nationalism and unification across popular and less well-known Waverley novels.