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This book situates Walter Scott's novels on monarchy within both their historical contexts and biopolitical theory, particularly regarding the King's Two Bodies, a notion that, according to Ernst H. Kantorowicz, raises 'the spectre of an absolutism. . .in an abstract physiological fiction.' It attends to Scott's careful calibration of the historical record behind each novel while noting that his reflections on the seismic shifts caused by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era - culminating in The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1827) - informs his representations of monarchy in the novels. While each novel's consideration of the rights and limitations of royal prerogatives is deeply grounded in its own historical context, Scott's fiction and the Life demonstrate keen awareness of the nineteenth-century shift to what Michel Foucault calls 'governmentality' - that is, the sovereign power's project to control and protect subjects, often through surveillance, policing, and the strategic exercise of mercy.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: Commencing History
Part I. Crusading Kings
1. Ivanhoe: Constructing a National Myth
2. The Talisman: The King's Two Bodies under Stress
3. The Betrothed: Sovereign Power and the Clash of Cultures
Part II. Rival Queens
4. The Abbot: Romancing the Sovereign Body
5. Kenilworth: Performance and Power in Elizabeth's England
Part III. Stuart Ways of Ruling
6. The Fortunes of Nigel: Ungainly Sovereignty as Saving Grace
7. Peveril of the Peak: Plotting the King's Two Bodies
8. Woodstock: The Once and Future King
Part IV. Hanoverian Mercy
9. Waverley: Dynastic Exigencies and Filial Service
10. Redgauntlet: Jacobite Delusions and Hanoverian Hopes
11. The Heart of Midlothian: Contesting the Royal Right of Mercy
Conclusion: Anne of Geierstein and the Failure of Royal Ambition
Works Cited
Index



