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The Achievement of Literary Authority

Gender, History, and the Waverly Novels
  • Ina Ferris
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1991
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Although literary historians have largely neglected them, Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels mark a pivotal moment in the formation of the modern literary field, Ina Ferris argues, exemplifying the complex intersections of gender and genre in the evolution of nineteenth-century literary authority.

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Ina Ferris is Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.


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Part One: Scott and the Status of the Novel

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Part Two: Defining the Historical Novel

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