Abstract
Examines Sir Walter Scott's novel The Monastery, written while he was also working on his better-known medieval novel Ivanhoe, and discusses its representation of the historical religious transition of Scotland from a Catholic to a Protestant country; focuses especially on Scott's treatment of the supernatural, in the figure of the White Lady, and argues that Scott uses her to allow representation of a personal religious experience or religious vision that otherwise fitted uneasily with his generally secular project for historical representation in fiction; and concludes by briefly sketching the significance of this atypical, transitional novel for understanding religious belief in other Scott works.
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May, Chad T.
(2016)
"Sir Walter Scott's The Monastery and the Representation of Religious Belief,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 41:
Iss.
1, 191–208.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol41/iss1/16