Character Names in the Waverley Novels
One of the longest established conventions in English literature is that of giving self-interpreting names to characters. Scores of instances might be drawn from morality plays, Elizabethan and Restoration drama, with its Justice Greedys and Lovelesses, and eighteenth-century novels and plays, with...
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
1934
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/458251 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030812900064221 |