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Walter Scott's Books - Reading the Waverley Novels (Paperback)
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Walter Scott's Books - Reading the Waverley Novels (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley
Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual
sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where
the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and
moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question of Scott's
'circumbendibus' style head on, suggesting that it is actually one
of the most exciting aspects of his fiction: indeed, what Ian
Duncan has called the 'elaborately literary narrative', at first
sight a barrier, is in a sense what the novels are primarily
'about'. The book aims to show how inventive, witty, and
entertaining Scott's richly allusive style is; how he keeps his
varied readership on board with his own inexhaustible variety; and
how he allows proponents of a wide range of positions to have their
say, using a detached, ironic, but never cynical narrative voice to
undermine the more rigid and inhumane rhetoric. The Introduction
outlines this approach and sets the book in the context of earlier
and current Scott criticism. It also deals with some practical
issues, including forms of reference and the distinctive use of the
term 'Authorial'. The four chapters are designed to zoom in
progressively from the general to the particular. 'Resources'
explores the printed material available to Scott in his library and
gives an overview of the way he uses it in his fiction. 'Style'
confronts objections to the 'circumbendibus' Scott and shows how
his Ciceronian style with its penchant for polysyllables enables
him to embrace a wide range of rhetoric relayed in a detached but
not cynical Authorial voice. 'Strategies' explores how he keeps his
very wide audience on board by a complex bonding between
characters, readers, and Author, and stresses the extraordinary
variety of exuberant inventiveness with which he handles
intertextual allusions. 'Mottoes' examines the most remarkable of
Scott's intertextual devices, the chapter epigraphs, bringing i
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