Dryasdust Antiquarianism and Soppy Masculinity: The Waverley Novels and the Gender of History

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Goode Mike

Abstract

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.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,General Arts and Humanities,Cultural Studies,Gender Studies

Reference104 articles.

1. 1 Dominick LaCapra, Rethinking Intellectual History (Ithaca, 1983); Is Everyone a Mentalite Case? Transference and the Culture Concept, in History and Criticism (Ithaca, 1985), 7174; Intellectual History and Critical Theory, in Soundings in Critical Theory (Ithaca, 1989), 182209; and Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma (Ithaca, 1994), 117. Similar transferential models of the relationship between the historian and history can be found in Hayden Whites The Historical Text as Literary Artifact (1974), in Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore, 1985), 8687; Robert D. Newmans Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative, in New Historical Literary Study, ed. Jeffrey N. Cox and Larry J. Reynolds (Princeton, 1993), 292315; and Michel de Certeaus The Writing of History (1975), trans. Tom Conley (New York, 1988), 1113.

2. 2 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (London, 1927), chap. 19; and E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (London, 1927), 4656. Prominent nineteenth-century critics who place The Antiquary among the best of the Waverley series include Francis Jeffrey, John Wilson Croker, J. G. Lockhart, Leslie Stephen, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Watson, and G. M. Trevelyan; James T. Hillhouse, The Waverley Novels and Their Critics (Minneapolis, 1936), 45, 48, 163, 269; Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library (New York, 1875), 199; John Watson, Books and Bookmen and Other Essays (1912; reprint, Freeport, N.Y., 1971), 169; and G. M. Trevelyan, Untitled 1937 Lecture to the Sir Walter Scott Society, in Sir Walter Scott, 17711832: An Edinburgh Keepsake, ed. Allan Frazer (Edinburgh, 1971), 33.

3. 3 F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (London, 1948), 14 n. On Scotts reflection of the climate of historical thought in his age, see Sir Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History (London, 1931); Georg Lukacs, The Historical Novel (1937), trans. Hannah Mitchell and Stanley Mitchell (Lincoln, Nebr., 1983), chap. 1;

4. Duncan Forbes, The Rationalism of Sir Walter Scott, Cambridge Journal 7 (1953): 2035;

5. Alexander Welsh, The Hero of the Waverley Novels, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1992);

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