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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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