It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of my book,
Subversive Scott: The Waverley Novels and Scottish Nationalism, by The
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Instiute of Foreign Languages and The University of
Iceland Press. Julian Meldon D'Arcy.
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SUBVERSIVE SCOTT
The Waverley Novels and Scottish Nationalism
Júlían Meldon D'Arcy
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.
Júlían Meldon D'Arcy's Subversive Scott radically revises this conventional
evaluation of Scott's work and reveals that embedded in the Waverley Novels'
narratives are dissonant discourses and discreet subtexts which inspire far
more subversive readings than hitherto perceived. Indeed, D'Arcy argues,
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 Scotland's national identity, dignity, and
independence.
Given the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, and
Scotland's resurgent sense of political identity and relevance, D'Arcy's
re-evaluation of the Waverley Novels is thus a timely and stimulating
contribution to the study of Sir Walter Scott's fiction and politics.
Júlían Meldon D'Arcy is Professor of English Literature in the Faculty of
Humanities at the University of Iceland and the author of Scottish Skalds
and Sagamen: Old Norse Influence on Modern Scottish Literature which was
nominated for a Saltire Society literary award in 1997.
The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages and the University
of Iceland Press, Reykjavik, October 2005
294 pp.
ISBN: 9979-54-666-2
Price: 3.490,- IKR
Distribution: Háskólaútgáfan
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