C M Jackson Houlston: 2 books
Gendering Walter Scott
Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Employing gender as a unifying critical focus, Caroline Jackson-Houlston draws on the full range of Walter Scott’s novels to propose new links between Scott and Romantic-era authors such as Sophia Lee, Jane Porter, Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, Elizabeth Hands, Thomas Love Peacock, and Robert Bage....
Ballads, Songs and Snatches
The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British 19th-Century Realist Prose
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions. It focuses on allusion to folksong, and, more tangentially, to popular culture, areas which have so far been slighted by literary critics....