Sir walter scott (1771-1832)

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Alexander Welsh in The Hero of the Waverley Novels, Princeton: Princeton University Press 
1962, 1992, explains that Scott's highly moral tone is very much in line with his canonical 
contemporary Jane Austen (Welsh, 17). Welsh concludes (215) that in his first novel Scott 
invented an action in which the hero ambiguously invites and resists his own arrest.This hero is 
identified by his passivity.
“The hero is obviously much more at home as a peacemaker than as a warrior, and it is amusing 
to watch Waverley racing ahead over the battlefield in order to rescue Hanoverian officers, and 
then being commended for his distinguished service by the chevalier.”
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Think of the different male characters of the novel, Waverley, Fergus, Talbot... Do you agree with 
Welsh that Scott seems to condemn Fergus excessive heroicism and that masculinity seems to 
mean self-control under the most trying circumstances (Welsh 17)?
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In Scottish Literature: Character and Influence. London: Macmillan, 1919, Gregory Smith argued 
that there is a split kind of personality in many of the heroes of Scottish literature, which can be 
traced back to Waverley, whose very name, as it has been so often pointed out, illustrates how 
his consciousness wavers between opposing ideologies: the Stuart and the Hanoverian.
The split takes its most radical form in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Does Waverley belong to the Bildungsroman genre? (A Sample-answer is provided; Answer 
other questions similarly)
Explanation
The term (from German literally a growing-up novel) applies to a narrative in which we encounter 
encounters a description of how the hero/heroine whose personality develops by means of 
experience. The Bildungsroman shows the consolidation of a set of values by which a 

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man/woman lives. This "Bildung" is not so much an educational matter but rather a more internal 
and psychological process. Some examples of this genre would be Fielding’s Tom Jones, 
Dickens's David Copperfield (1849-50) and Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
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In your opinion what is the main concern of the novel, the historical process or character 
psychology? Discuss using quotations from the text.