Article Title
Twilight Histories: The Waverley Novels and George Eliot’s Fictions of the Recent Past
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