...associations. I have, therefore, like a maiden knight. with his white shield, assumed for my hero, ' Waverley,' an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little...shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it. But my next or supplementary title was a matter of more difficult election, since that, short as it is, may...

...like a maiden knight with his , -• white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated g name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil,...shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it. But my Ksecond or supplemental title was a matter of much more difficult "3 election, since that, short as...

...associations; I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, \V.\ VERU: y, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little...held as pledging the author to some special mode of laving his scene, drawing his characters, and managing his adventures. Had I, for example, announced...

...therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERI.EY, an nncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil,...shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it. But my <econd or supplemental title was a matter of much more difficult election, since that, short as it...

...shield, assumed fo^m^ hero, WAYEBLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with ira sound Tittle oT~good or evil, excepting what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it. Thij; my gpmnrl or supplemental title was a matter of much more difficult election, since that, short...

...say, " I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little...reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it." 2. Sometimes, as in the case just given, the first title says or intimates so ' little that a supplementary...

...— "I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, Waverley, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader sbull hereafter be pleased io affix to it." Thus, like Shakespeare's cloud-capped towers and gorgeous...

...unknown to herald or historian, he says. This makes it, in a crucial phrase we shall return to often, "an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil," a blank space waiting to be filled in, a series of notes to be given what melody and words "the reader...

...and women's fiction, by pointing to his "neutral" choice of name for his title character: "WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little...reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it."" To the reader of Charlotte Smith and Jane West, however, this name is already occupied, in a way that...

...his Waverley. The name, he writes in the introduction, evokes no "preconceived associations"; it is "an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little...the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it."29 The scholarly squabbles, political divisiveness, mythologies, and differences of popular opinion...