Dryasdust Antiquarianism and Soppy Masculinity
The Waverley Novels and the Gender of History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4928629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Goode (0000-0001-5537-2096, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-86 |
| Publication date | 2003-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2003.82.1.52 |
| OpenAlex | W2116805964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay attempts to widen the discursive contexts through which scholars understand Romantic historicism and the role of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels in its development. Placing Scott's The Antiquary (1816) and ''Dedicatory Epistle'' to Ivanhoe (1819) in dialogue with contemporaneous verbal and visual discourse over antiquaries, Edmund Burke, and the Lady Hamilton affair, the essay proposes that Romantic historicism disciplined bodies as it defined and authorized new forms of knowledge. Romantic historicists perceived the ability to relate to and know the past properly as dependent on the manliness of the historical thinker's sentimental and sexual constitution. Thus, the era's arguments over the legitimacy of different forms of historical inquiry, as well as over the historical novel's cultural authority in relation to the field of history, frequently became contests over the manliness and sensibility of their practitioners' bodies
Aesthetics · Art · Constitution · Historicism · Legitimacy · Literature · Masculinity · New Historicism · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sensibility · Sociology · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Short Stories in Global Literature
The Antiquary
The Achievement of Literary Authority
The Order of Things
Old Heroes and a New Heroine in the Waverley Novels
Fragments of History and The Man of Feeling
Aestheticizing the Ancestral City
Silent intercourse’. The impact of the 18th‐century conceptual heritage on the antiquary and St. Ronan's well
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2017 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |