ABSTRACT
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a figure paradoxically associated with both transformation and stasis. An undead relic of ancient history, he walks the ages of the world unscathed by the passage of time. Redgauntlet, the third Waverley novel dealing with Jacobite insurrection, represents Walter Scott's most extensive treatment of the perils surrounding the reanimation of national history. James Hogg's text reiterates the fear expressed by other critics, who, while they found Scottish Romanticism's resurrection of the national past admirable, questioned whether the so-called corpse was a harmless zombie, dancing to the author's tune, or a malicious vampire, threatening to break free of the author's control and create national havoc. Ultimately, then, Stoker's Dracula emerges as a novel that validates some Scottish Romanticists' fear of the undead nationalist past, exposing the figure of the Celtic nationalist agitator the recrudescent Gothic Jacobite exemplified by figures like Scott's Redgauntlet as one whose archaic virtues cannot be reclaimed.
