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For the last fifty years or so the standard critical view of Sir Walter Scott's fiction has been that, while paying full tribute to Scotland's heroic, ancient independence and romantic Jacobite past, his Scottish Waverley Novels ultimately present Scotland's future as nonetheless belonging within the peace, prosperity and progress of the United Kingdom and the British Empire. The author argues that there is considerable evidence in Scott's work to corroborate a claim that, despite his apparently politically correct fiction and lifestyle, his Waverley Novels contain undetected and underrated manifestations of Scottish nationalism which not only invoke sharp criticism of both the Union and English imperial policy, but also reveal his passionate concern, as a true Scotsman, with the issues of Scotlands national identity, dignity, and independence.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Subversive Scott
• Subtitle: The Waverley Novels and Scottish Nationalism
• Author: Meldon J. D'Arcy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294
• EAN: 9789979546665
• ISBN: 9979546662
• ID: 05072682
• Publisher: Haskolautgafan
• Date of publishing: 10. October 2005

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