SOURCE: Makdisi, Saree. “Colonial Space and the Colonization of Time in Scott's Waverley.” Studies in Romanticism 34, no. 2 (summer 1995): 155-87.
In the following essay, Makdisi explores the mythic geography of the Scottish Highlands in Waverley and the related temporal and spatial conflicts between England and this imagined Scotland. The critic closes by suggesting that Scott's novel contains an implied justification of Highland subjugation by the British.
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