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The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations: Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier and Christian Johnstone

Andrew Monnickendam

3/5 ( ratings)

The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations is an innovative critical study which challenges traditional approaches by examining Scott only after reading Brunton, Ferrier and Johnstone. Consequently, their lively wit and controversial ideas emerge from their novels unfettered by their purported subservience to the Great Unknown. Questions like desire, the heroine, and the love-plot, are therefore cast in a new, more human light.Attention is then switched to Scott. Will our views of the Waverley Novels undergo a minor or major change? Of particular interest are the accounts of the hero, the heroine, and, above all, that fundamental subject of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British culture: the union. This book claims that this fundamental concept is far more rickety than previously thought, and Scott, right from the beginning of his novelistic career, a much more pensative author than previously acknowledged.

Language: English

Pages: 216

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: November 13, 2012

ISBN: 1137276541

ISBN 13: 9781137276544

The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations: Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier and Christian Johnstone

Andrew Monnickendam

3/5 ( ratings)

The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations is an innovative critical study which challenges traditional approaches by examining Scott only after reading Brunton, Ferrier and Johnstone. Consequently, their lively wit and controversial ideas emerge from their novels unfettered by their purported subservience to the Great Unknown. Questions like desire, the heroine, and the love-plot, are therefore cast in a new, more human light.Attention is then switched to Scott. Will our views of the Waverley Novels undergo a minor or major change? Of particular interest are the accounts of the hero, the heroine, and, above all, that fundamental subject of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British culture: the union. This book claims that this fundamental concept is far more rickety than previously thought, and Scott, right from the beginning of his novelistic career, a much more pensative author than previously acknowledged.

Language: English

Pages: 216

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: November 13, 2012

ISBN: 1137276541

ISBN 13: 9781137276544

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