The Achievement of Literary Authority : : Gender, History, and the Waverly Novels / / Ina Ferris.
Although literary historians have largely neglected them, Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels mark a pivotal moment in the formation of the modern literary field, Ina Ferris argues, exemplifying the complex intersections of gender and genre in the evolution of nineteenth-century literary authori...
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Ferris, Ina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Achievement of Literary Authority : Gender, History, and the Waverly Novels / Ina Ferris. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©1991 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic Note -- Introduction -- Part One: Scott and the Status of the Novel -- 1. Critical Tropes: The Republic of Letters, Female Reading, and Feminine Writing -- 2. Utility, Gender, and the Canon: The Example of Maria Edgeworth -- 3. A Manly Intervention: Waverley, the Female Field, and Male Romance -- 4. From "National Tale" to "Historical Novel": Edgeworth, Morgan, and Scott -- Part Two: Defining the Historical Novel -- 5. The Problem of Generic Propriety: Contesting Scott's Historical Novel -- 6. Constructing the Past: Old Mortality and the Counterfictions of Galt and Hogg -- 7. "Authentic History" and the Project of the Historical Novel -- 8. Establishing the Author of Waverley: The Canonical Moment of Ivanhoe -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although literary historians have largely neglected them, Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels mark a pivotal moment in the formation of the modern literary field, Ina Ferris argues, exemplifying the complex intersections of gender and genre in the evolution of nineteenth-century literary authority. Focusing on the critical reception of Scott's early works, Ferris shows how their extraordinary success propelled the novel from the margins of the culture into the literary hierarchy.Drawing on the insights of poststructuralist, feminist, and Bakhtinian theory, Ferris reconstructs reviewers' debates about fiction at several critical points in Scott's career. His literary authority and innovative power, she maintains, depended on the way in which his historical novels responded to the anxieties about discourse and modernity expressed in the literary reviews. Gender was a central source of anxiety, and the "manliness" of Scott's historical novels was decisive in their legitimation of the novel. It was largely through a problematic allegiance to the "female" genre of romance, however, that the Waverley Novels both recuperated fiction for male reading and helped to redefine for the nineteenth century the writing of history itself. Ferris locates the Waverley Novels in relation to fiction and history by such contemporaries of Scott's as Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, John Galt, James Hogg, Augustin Thierry, and Thomas Babington Macaulay.Students of the novel, feminist critics, and others interested in the relations between history and fiction will want to read The Achievement of Literary Authority. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Authority in literature. Authorship Sex differences. Historical fiction, English History and criticism Theory, etc. Gender Studies. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501734533 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501734533 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501734533/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic Note -- Introduction -- Part One: Scott and the Status of the Novel -- 1. Critical Tropes: The Republic of Letters, Female Reading, and Feminine Writing -- 2. Utility, Gender, and the Canon: The Example of Maria Edgeworth -- 3. A Manly Intervention: Waverley, the Female Field, and Male Romance -- 4. From "National Tale" to "Historical Novel": Edgeworth, Morgan, and Scott -- Part Two: Defining the Historical Novel -- 5. The Problem of Generic Propriety: Contesting Scott's Historical Novel -- 6. Constructing the Past: Old Mortality and the Counterfictions of Galt and Hogg -- 7. "Authentic History" and the Project of the Historical Novel -- 8. Establishing the Author of Waverley: The Canonical Moment of Ivanhoe -- Index |
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