SOURCE: Valente, Joseph. “Upon the Braes: History and Hermeneutics in Waverley.” Studies in Romanticism 25, no. 2 (summer 1986): 251-76.
In the following essay, Valente probes Scott's conception of history in Waverley, emphasizing the symbolic and thematic dialectic of romance and history illustrated by opposing characters and geographical locations in the novel.
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