Title The Hero of the Waverley Novels : With New Essays on Scott.

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Series	Literature in History
	Studies in Italian culture--Literature in history.
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Summary	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 M.
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Subject	Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Characters -- Heroes.
	Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
	Heroes.
	Heroes in literature.
	Heroes in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Welsh, Alexander. Hero of the Waverley Novels : With New Essays on Scott. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN	9781400863297 (electronic book)
	1400863295 (electronic book)