This sounds great, congrats! Can’t wait to read it.

Todorov! Structuralism and genre are a match made in heaven

3/3 Only at the very end of this rehearsal of the lore do we get to the real basis of the problems here:

Will look forward to reading that. To me, she’s one of the instances where Scott is most strongly flirting with a genuinely supernatural character, short of the White Lady of Avenel, of course.

Good stuff! Peveril of the Peak is so often laughing at rather than with Geoffrey Hudson. Think it’s my least favourite of the entire 27 novels.

Oooh sounds interesting! Can you tease a few of your primary texts?

It’s a butter delivery system tbh - more butter the better