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Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire. Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs , Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl , Sir Walter Scott's Waverley , Old Mortality , Rob Roy , The Pirate and Redgauntlet , and Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Lionel Lincoln are given detailed new readings. General conclusions about the relationship of desire and nationalism in historical fiction are proposed.

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Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction
  • Author : Ian Dennis
  • Release : 13 July 1997
  • Publisher : Springer
  • ISBN : 9781349255573
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Total Page : 212 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 14,8 Mb

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