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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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The Nineteenth Century Series |
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Nineteenth Century Series
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 'Hardly any women at all'?: Gender and genre; 3 Witches, bitches, gipsies: women and psychic power; 4 'Fanaticism ... in the face of the father?': The displacement of the feminine in Rob Roy and Romantic treatments of rape; 5 'The full force of sisterly sorrow': the ethics of justice in The Heart of Mid-Lothian; 6 'A barbarous, unfeminine use of power': Romantic constructions of Renaissance queenship; 7 Fathers of their countries?: Scott, Porter and male rulers |
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8 'A dingy or damaged commodity': circulation, honour, and commodification in Scott's Saint Ronan's Well9 'She herself must venture ... beyond the prescribed boundary': the construction of gender and cultural difference through four Orientalist fictions; 10 'Men of blood' and 'the speech of a woman'; 11 Mountain maidens and cowgirls: exercise, athleticism, and ideological constraints for several Scott heroines; 12 Women warriors and other outlaws; 13 Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-259) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 fast |
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Romanticism.
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Sex in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Violence in literature.
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romanticism (form of expression)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Women.
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Romanticism
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Sex in literature
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Violence in literature
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317129578 |
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1317129571 |
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