Enlightenment and Romance : Gender and Agency in Smollett and Scott
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
390675894X
ISBN-13
9783906758947
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
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Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 13th, 2000
Print length
225 Pages
Weight
316 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.50 x 1.20 cms
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This study places the novels of Tobias Smollett and Walter Scott in two critical contexts: the rise, from the middle of the eighteenth century, of the discourses of the human or social sciences; and the dominance of the novel by women writers throughout the eighteenth century. It argues that both authors, so often seen as paradigmatically masculine, in fact use the discourses of feminine romance or the domestic novel to figure authorial control over narrative structure. It suggests that they do so in order to combine utopian plot-endings, enacting a nostalgic tory ideology, with an essentially deterministic account of history and society, borrowed from the human sciences of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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