Abstract
Argues that Walter Scott's novels, especially Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian, represent a shift in Anglo-scottish attitudes towards the mentally ill, and that mental disability, operating in Scott's novels under the guises of idiocy and insanity, was integral to Scott’s articulations of the romantic imagination.
Recommended Citation
Carman, Colin
(2013)
"Deficiencies: Mental Disability and the Imagination in Scott's Waverley Novels,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 39:
Iss.
1, 139–161.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol39/iss1/13
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