Emily Hodgson Anderson

Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction

Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen

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Produktbeschreibung

This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415999052
• ISBN-10: 0415999057
• Artikelnr.: 25045133

Autorenporträt

An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California, Emily Hodgson Anderson specializes in the 18th-century novel, drama, and women writers. She has published extensively on these topics, and others, in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in the Novel, and ELH.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction: Playing at Authorship
Chapter Two: Rehearsing Desire: Eliza Haywood's Self-Conscious Performance
Chapter Three: Forgetting the Self: Frances Burney and Staged Insensibility
Chapter Four: Acting as Herself: Elizabeth Inchbald and Mediated Feelings
Chapter Five: Pedagogical Performance: Maria Edgeworth's Didactic Approach
to Fiction
Epilogue-Generic Revolutions: Mansfield Park and the "Womanly Style" of
Fiction
Notes
Index