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This 5 page paper examines the 1814 novel, Waverley, by Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott. Specifically discussed is how the novel qualifies as romantic, in terms of definition and the author's medieval concept of the term. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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word romance could have been created to describe the novels of Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, whose first novel, the epic Waverley, published anonymously in 1814, was the story of
the dashing young English army captain Edward Waverley, his military adventures and affairs of the heart while siding with the Scottish forces who rebelled against England in 1745. This
novel is most certainly romantic in that it is a long narrative (71 chapters) and was written in the prose style reminiscent of both Celtic ballads and William Shakespeare (and
features quotes from Shakespeare). Scott himself described the protagonist Waverley as "the lover who wears his mistresss favour in his bosom, is as proud, though not so vain of possessing
it, as another who displays the token of her grace upon his bonnet" (16). Edward Waverley was the quintessential nineteenth-century hero, well-educated in poetry and great works of literature:
"He had perused the numerous romantic poems, which, from the days of Pulci, have been a favourite exercise of the wits of Italy... In classical literature, Waverley had made
the usual progress, and read the usual authors; and the French had afforded him an almost exhaustless collection of memoirs, scarcely more faithful than romances, and of romances so well
written as hardly to be distinguished from memoirs... The splendid pages of Froissart, with his heart-stirring and eye-dazzling descriptions of war and of tournaments, were among his chief favourites... The
Spanish had contributed to his stock of chivalrous and romantic lore" (Scott 39). It is clear that, in Scotts opinion, in order to be a romantic hero, one must
first be well-versed on the romantic classics of western literature. Interspersed throughout the Waverley narrative are Celtic verses which Scott uses to emphasize a characters particular mood. Referring to
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