1st Edition
Gendering Walter Scott Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing
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
Biography
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.
"Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing conducts a comprehensive review of Walter Scott’s major novels through the lens of gender studies [...] This is an important book. It fills a gap in Scott studies, pro-vides an in-depth exploration of romantic gender ideology, and justifies the current scholarly rediscovery of Scott as a key figure in the field."
- Yanxu Chen, Northeast Normal University, China, Scottish Literary Review
