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Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820: Gender and Genre

Editat de Hilary Havens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2019
Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic novels were frequently conventional in structure, they provided a venue for women to uphold, to undermine, to interrogate, but most importantly, to write about acceptable social codes and values. The essays discuss the multifaceted ways in which didacticism and women’s writing were connected and demonstrate the reforming potential of this feminine and ostensibly constricting genre. Focusing on works by novelists from Jane West to Susan Ferrier, the collection argues that didactic novels within these decades were particularly feminine; that they were among the few acceptable ways by which women could participate in public political debate; and that they often blurred political and ideological boundaries. The first part addresses both conservative and radical texts of the 1790s to show their shared focus on institutional reform and indebtedness to Mary Wollstonecraft, despite their large ideological range. In the second part, the ideas of Hannah More influence the ways authors after the French revolution often linked the didactic with domestic improvement and national unity. The essays demonstrate the means by which the didactic genre works as a corrective not just on a personal and individual level, but at the political level through its focus on issues such as inheritance, slavery, the roles of women and children, the limits of the novel, and English and Scottish nationalism. This book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging picture of how women with various ideological and educational foundations were involved in British political discourse during a time of radical partisanship and social change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367175689
ISBN-10: 0367175681
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Gender and Genre

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

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Table of Contents

Introduction – Hilary Havens
Chapter 1: Charlotte Smith and the Persistence of the Past – Morgan Rooney
Chapter 2: ‘Vehicles for Words of Sound Doctrine’: Jane West’s Didactic Fiction – Megan Woodworth
Chapter 3: Epistolary Exposés: The Marriage Market, the Slave Trade and the ‘Cruel Business’ of War in Mary Robinson’s Angelina – Sharon M. Setzer
Chapter 4: Moral and Generic Corruption in Eliza Fenwick’s Secresy – Jonathan Sadow
Chapter 5: Mary Hays and the Didactic Novel in the 1790s – Ada Sharpe and Eleanor Ty
Chapter 6: Lessons of Courtship: Hannah More’s Cœlebs in Search of a Wife – Patricia Demers
Chapter 7: Maria Edgeworth’s Moral Tales and the Problem of Youth Rebellion in a Revolutionary Age – Andrew O’Malley
Chapter 8: Maria Edgeworth’s Revisions to Nationalism and Didacticism in Patronage – Hilary Havens
Chapter 9: Didacticism After Hannah More: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Cottagers of Glenburnie – Claire Grogan
Chapter 10: A National Bildungsroman: Didacticism and National Identity in Mary Brunton’s Discipline and Susan Edmonstone Ferrier’s Marriage – Teri Doerksen
Afterword – Shelley King
Shelley King

Descriere

This book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate in novels published from 1790 to 1820. The genre was among the few acceptable ways by which women could participate in public political debate; the book reveals how it works as a corrective not just on a personal and individual level, but at the political level through its focus on issues such as inheritance, slavery, the roles of women and children, the limits of the novel, and English and Scottish nationalism. This book demonstrates how women with various ideological and educational foundations were involved in British political discourse during a time of radical partisanship and social change.