1. Critical Tropes: The Republic of Letters, Female Reading, and Feminine Writing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Bibliographic Note xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: Scott and the Status of the Novel
7. 1. Critical Tropes: The Republic of Letters, Female Reading, and Feminine Writing 19
8. 2. Utility, Gender, and the Canon: The Example of Maria Edgeworth 60
9. 3. A Manly Intervention: Waverley, the Female Field, and Male Romance 79
10. 4. From "National Tale" to "Historical Novel": Edgeworth, Morgan, and Scott 105
11. Part Two: Defining the Historical Novel
12. 5. The Problem of Generic Propriety: Contesting Scott's Historical Novel 137
13. 6. Constructing the Past: Old Mortality and the Counterfictions of Galt and Hogg 161
14. 7. "Authentic History" and the Project of the Historical Novel 195
15. 8. Establishing the Author of Waverley: The Canonical Moment of Ivanhoe 237
16. Index 257