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“The Force of my Narrative”: Persuasion, Nation, and Paratext in Walter Scott’s Early Waverley Novels
- Maeve Adams
- ELH
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2015
- pp. 937-967
- 10.1353/elh.2015.0035
- Article
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Buy Issue for $25 at JHUPThis essay revisits Scott’s theory of “the force of…narrative” and argues that the elaborate paratexts of his early Waverley novels constitute an expression of (and experiment in) that theory. In his early Waverley novels and book review essays, Scott joined his contemporaries in grappling with the demise of classical rhetoric, elaborating a theory of narrative force by rethinking the two dominant Romantic conceptions of force: military force and rhetorical force. This essay thus reveals some overlooked origins of Scott’s innovative form of historical fiction and his theory of the novel.
| ISSN | 1080-6547 |
|---|---|
| Print ISSN | 0013-8304 |
| Pages | pp. 937-967 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2015-09-14 |
| Open Access | No |
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