Sarah Catrin Ilkhani

[ 1 ] - Affiliation and Filiation: The Nation-Family in Scott’s Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein

This article studies Sir Walter Scott’s use of the family-as-nation trope in Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein. The importance of this trope in his figuration of nationhood is discerned by carrying out a close reading of the texts and placing them in their historical context, which primarily consists of a comparison with Edmund Burke and Maria Edgeworth. Consequently, his position is revealed as b...