Routledge - Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romance

Explore the connections between Walter Scott and the Romantic era in this scholarly work from Routledge. Caroline Jackson-Houlston uses gender as a central lens to examine Scott's novels and their relationship to other major writers of the period. This study looks at how sex and violence function within the romance genre. By focusing on the trope of raptus - which involves the actual or threatened kidnapping of women and subsequent physical or psychic violence - the text provides a new way to understand these literary works. Readers will find detailed analysis linking Scott to authors such as Jane Austen, Jane Porter, and Sophia Lee, as well as Sydney Owenson, Elizabeth Hands, Thomas Love Peacock, and Robert Bage. It is a valuable resource for those studying the Nineteenth Century Series and the broader themes of the Romantic period.