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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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Book Title: Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction
Authors: Ian Dennis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25557-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ian Dennis 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-25559-7Published: 01 January 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-25557-3Published: 13 July 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 203