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The Hero of the Waverley Novels: With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Hero of the Waverley Novels: With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Alexander Welsh
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| Series | Literature in History |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:270 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691601984
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.7 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Edition |
Revised edition
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
14 July 2014 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
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
Reviews"In this brilliant and closely reasoned book the hero of the Waverley Novels is for the first time made interesting, significant, and convincing; but Mr. Welsh has also confirmed ... Scott's own ambivalence about the adequacy of society to fulfill the profoundest needs of the individual."--Morse Peckham, Saturday Review
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