Walter's Scott's novel Waverley depicts Scotland as a picturesque country, which produces a distinctive and romantic picture with incorporating the local elements: Scottish natural landscape, the heroic Jacobites, the bardic tradition and Gaelic culture. Scott¡¦s picturesque representation of a romantic Scotland, built upon the mixture of romance and history, achieves two goals: it offers the Scots an idealized Scottish nation while making Scotland¡¦s participation in the Union with England palatable to both the Scots and the English, giving the Scots an authentic image of their own country and the English a tourist destination of picturesque beauty. Chapter one defines the term ¡§picturesque,¡¨ discusses its changing meanings as an aesthetic category, and introduces the general picturesque experience of Scotland. Chapter two discusses Scott¡¦s use of the picturesque in Waverley and its concomitant paradoxes in Scott¡¦s idealization of a British nation. Chapter three focuses on the romanticizing of the Scottish landscape as well as on how the image supported Romantic nationalism. That romantic picture of a Gaelic Scotland then turned into the set picturesque view that tourists had of Scotland, even before they actually traveled there. The illustrated editions of Scott¡¦s novels played a major role in turning Scotland into ¡§Scott-land,¡¨ a country made up of a novelist¡¦s ambition and imagination.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0722112-233019 |
| Date | 22 July 2012 |
| Creators | Chen , Szu-Ying |
| Contributors | Teeuwen, Rudolphus, Lai, Shu-fang, Chang, Yih-fan |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0722112-233019 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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