C.M. Jackson-Houlston

Gendering Walter Scott

Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780367880972
• ISBN-10: 0367880970
• Artikelnr.: 58439778

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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