ABSTRACT
Each novel in the Waverley series has its own distinct timbre or texture. The present study has argued that this owes much to the predominating historical and literary sources, and the topographical settings, explored in greater or lesser detail in the Historical Note and explanatory notes of each eewn volume, along with distinctive patterns in the pervasive imagery. This chapter offers a set of thumbnail textural sketches of the novels in sequence to hint at some of the ways in which the sources feed in to the matrix investigated in previous chapters, producing the unique reading experience each work affords, and contributing to its thematic force.
