Seductive and monstrous fictions : discourses of the orient in Walter Scott's Waverley novels
This thesis examines the construction and function of spaces, characters and allusions in eight of Walter Scott’s Waverley novels. Underpinned by postcolonial theory and recent analyses of the relationship between Romanticism and Orientalism, this thesis argues that Scott’s engagement with the disc...
Main Author: | Newsome, Sally |
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University of Aberdeen
2010
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531891 |
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