his consciousness wavers between opposing ideologies: the Stuart and the Hanoverian.
Does Waverley belong to the Bildungsroman genre? (A Sample-answer is provided; Answer
The term (from German literally a growing-up novel) applies to a narrative in which we encounter
encounters a description of how the hero/heroine whose personality develops by means of
experience. The Bildungsroman shows the consolidation of a set of values by which a
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man/woman lives. This "Bildung" is not so much an educational matter but rather a more internal
and psychological process. Some examples of this genre would be Fielding’s Tom Jones,
Dickens's David Copperfield (1849-50) and Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
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In your opinion what is the main concern of the novel, the historical process or character
psychology? Discuss using quotations from the text.
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