The Hero Of The Waverley Novels

Author : Alexander Welsh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863295
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hero of the Waverley Novels written by Alexander Welsh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexander Welsh
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Hero of the Waverley Novels written by Alexander Welsh and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Scott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
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Download or read book Rob Roy written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jenni Calder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910021255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Walter Scott's Waverley written by Jenni Calder and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and controversial major redaction of Walter Scott's Waverley, set in Scotland in 1745, the year of the Jacobite uprising.

Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 142505157X
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waverley written by Sir Walter Scott and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stanley Corngold
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691201641
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind in Exile written by Stanley Corngold and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize–winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as “the greatest living man of letters,” Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where, for nearly three years, he was stunningly productive as a novelist, university lecturer, and public intellectual. In The Mind in Exile, Stanley Corngold portrays in vivid detail this crucial station in Mann’s journey from arch-European conservative to liberal conservative to ardent social democrat. On the knife-edge of an exile that would last fully fourteen years, Mann declared, “Where I am, there is Germany. I carry my German culture in me.” At Princeton, Mann nourished an authentic German culture that he furiously observed was “going to the dogs” under Hitler. Here, he wrote great chunks of his brilliant novel Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns); the witty novella The Transposed Heads; and the first chapters of Joseph the Provider, which contain intimations of his beloved President Roosevelt’s economic policies. Each of Mann’s university lectures—on Goethe, Freud, Wagner—attracted nearly 1,000 auditors, among them the baseball catcher, linguist, and O.S.S. spy Moe Berg. Meanwhile, Mann had the determination to travel throughout the United States, where he delivered countless speeches in defense of democratic values. In Princeton, Mann exercised his “stupendous capacity for work” in a circle of friends, all highly accomplished exiles, including Hermann Broch, Albert Einstein, and Erich Kahler. The Mind in Exile portrays this luminous constellation of intellectuals at an extraordinary time and place.

Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waverley written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Walter Scott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book The heart of Mid-Lothian written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Welsh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824125
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet in His Modern Guises written by Alexander Welsh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770482687
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waverley written by Walter Scott and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.