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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on June 27, 2007
Literary Imagination 2007 9(3):250-269; doi:10.1093/litimag/imm086
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Spolia from Troy: Classical Epic Allusion in Walter Scott's Waverley

Chris Ann Matteo*

*E-mail: thematteos@comcast.net

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To contemporary readers in 1814, one of the most endearing characters in Walter Scott's phenomenally popular historical novel, Waverley, was not the young Edward Waverley, its central protagonist, but rather its sage fool, the classically educated bibliophile and veteran of "the Fifteen," Cosmo Bradwardine.1 Critics today exaggerate the ironic caricature in his persona, whereas this interpretive habit was less common among readers of the Romantic period, who indeed saw as much sentiment as satire in him.2 Characterized by the narrator of Waverley as "more of a reader than a grammarian," (Waverley, 6:26) Bradwardine is a paradox in this novel, and specifically a paradox surrounding how to read classical inheritance itself. On one hand, he is drawn as the novel's pedant of classical learning and hence is ridiculed on account of his antiquated bookishness from the point of view of other characters, such as the urbane, witty (and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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