SOURCE: "Witch or Pawn: Women in Scott's Narrative Poetry," in Romanticism and Feminism, edited by Anne K. Mellor, Indiana University Press, 1988, pp. 115-36.
An American educator and critic, Goslee is the author of a study about Scott's poetry, Scott the Rhymer (1988). In the following essay, she contends that while most of the female characters in Scott's narrative poems are cast in narrow roles, a few of his women undermine gender stereotypes.
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