Enlightenment and Romance - Gender and Agency in Smollett and Scott (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	October 2000
Authors:	Robert P. Irvine
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	225
ISBN-13:	978-3-906758-94-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN:	3-906758-94-X
Barcode:	9783906758947

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