Abstract
Discusses the influence of Scott's Waverley novels on George Eliot, as novels set in recent history, drawing on Eric Hobsbawm's idea of a "twilight zone between history and memory" to examine Eliot's Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss, and to argue that Eliot in reworking Scott's reimagining of this recent-historical "time-lapse" articulates a psychological experience of historical transition and modernisation.
Recommended Citation
Cassidy, Camilla
(2018)
"Twilight Histories: The Waverley Novels and George Eliot’s Fictions of the Recent Past,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 44:
Iss.
2, 108–118.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol44/iss2/11