Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing

ISBN-13: 9780367880972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 270 str.

C. M. Jackson-Houlston

Opis

Employing gender as a unifying critical focus, Caroline Jackson-Houlston draws on the full range of Walter Scott’s novels to propose new links between Scott and Romantic-era authors such as Sophia Lee, Jane Porter, Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, Elizabeth Hands, Thomas Love Peacock, and Robert Bage. In Scott, Jackson-Houlston suggests, sex and vio

Recenzje

"Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing conducts a comprehensive review of Walter Scott’s major novels through the lens of gender studies [...] This is an important book. It fills a gap in Scott studies, pro-vides an in-depth exploration of romantic gender ideology, and justifies the current scholarly rediscovery of Scott as a key figure in the field."

- Yanxu Chen, Northeast Normal University, China, Scottish Literary Review

Spis treści

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Hardly any women at all’?: Gender and genre

Chapter 3 Witches, bitches, gipsies: women and psychic power

Chapter 4 ‘Fanaticism … in the face of the Father?’: The displacement of the feminine in Rob Roy and romantic treatments of rape

Chapter 5 ‘The full force of sisterly sorrow’: the ethics of justice in The Heart of Mid-Lothian

Chapter 6 ‘A barbarous, unfeminine use of power’: romantic constructions of renaissance Queenship

Chapter 7 Fathers of their countries? Scott, Porter and male rulers

Chapter 8 ‘A dingy or damaged commodity’: circulation, honour and commodification in Scott’s Saint Ronan’s Well

Chapter 9 ‘She herself must venture … beyond the prescribed boundary’: the construction of gender and cultural difference through four Orientalist fictions

Chapter 10 ‘Men of blood’ and ‘the speech of a woman’

Chapter 11 Mountain maidens and cowgirls: exercise, athleticism, and its ideological constraints for several Scott heroines

Chapter 12 Women warriors and other outlaws

Chapter 13 Conclusion

Select bibliography

Index

O autorze

Caroline Jackson-Houlston has forty one years' experience teaching Romanticism at Oxford Brookes University, UK and contributed to the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels for twenty five years as a consultative editor for folksong allusions.