Enlightenment and Romance : Gender and Agency in Smollett and Scott

Name: Enlightenment and Romance
Brand: Verlag Peter Lang
SKU: 9783906758947
Price: 7900 KES
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ISBN: 9783906758947

by Robert P. Irvine

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 390675894X

ISBN-13 9783906758947

Publisher Verlag Peter Lang

Imprint 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

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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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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