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The Hero of the Waverley Novels
Author | : Alexander Welsh |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781400863297 |
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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.
The Hero of the Waverley Novels
Author | : Alexander Welsh |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:503819908 |
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Waverley
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publsiher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2010-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781770482685 |
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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.
Waverley
Author | : Sir Walter Scott |
Publsiher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 2006-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781425051570 |
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In the backdrop of political issues such as the Jacobite risings and clashes between the two factions, the author has narrated the romantic tale of Waverley. The ups and downs of the protagonist's life capture the imagination of the reader. Composed of two volumes, the twists and turns of the plot keep the readers anticipating.
Waverley Novels
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433076078843 |
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Hamlet in His Modern Guises
Author | : Alexander Welsh |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2001-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781400824120 |
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Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and wit. Yet in order to understand more deeply the modernity of this Shakespearean hero, Welsh first situates Hamlet within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Revenge, he maintains, appears as a function of mourning rather than an end in itself. Welsh also reminds us that the mourning of a son for his father may not always be sincere. This book relates the problem of dubious mourning to Hamlet's ascendancy as an icon of Western culture, which began late in the eighteenth century, a time when the thinking of past generations--or fathers--represented to many an obstacle to human progress. Welsh reveals how Hamlet inspired some of the greatest practitioners of modernity's quintessential literary form, the novel. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Scott's Redgauntlet, Dickens's Great Expectations, Melville's Pierre, and Joyce's Ulysses all enhance our understanding of the play while illustrating a trend in which Hamlet ultimately becomes a model of intense consciousness. Arguing that modern consciousness mourns for the past, even as it pretends to be free of it, Welsh offers a compelling explanation of why Hamlet remains marvelously attractive to this day.