A Vision on Femininity in the Romantic Historical Novel: Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
A Vision on Femininity in the Romantic Historical Novel: Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Author(s): Florica BodisteanSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Petru Maior
Summary/Abstract: The study presents the role of femininity in the historical/heroic Romantic novel through a significant example: Ivanhoe by Walter Scott. With the help of the two women conceived in the mirror, the Scottish writer accomplishes a critical takeover of the mediaeval canon, Rowena being the inheritance of the chivalrous heroic structures and Rebecca – a perfect Romantic century character, the way to finding a moral transcendence that has nothing in common with the institutions created by people.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 44-53
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English