This spring marks the appearance of two more books contributing to the on-going revitalisation of Walter Scott's critical standing as a novelist.
The first is Ian (J. H.) Alexander’s Walter Scott’s Books: Reading the Waverley Novels (flyer attached)
The second is Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing by C. M. Jackson-Houlston (London: Routledge, 2017), ISBN 9781472456274 (hbk) or 9781315584256 (ebk). This employs gender as a unifying critical focus and draws on the
full range of Scott’s novels to propose new links between Scott and other Romantic-era authors, especially where sex and violence are united in a central feature of the genre of romance, the trope of raptus—the actual or threatened kidnapping of a woman and her
subjection to physical or psychic violence.
Chapter 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 ideological constraints for several Scott heroines
Chapter 12 Women warriors and other outlaws
Chapter 13 Conclusion
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