Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction

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''...