Lisa Kasmer

Novel Histories

British Women Writing History, 1760-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 explores issues of historical and literary genres, historiography, and the gendering of civic and literary roles. It demonstrates the new and sometimes subversive ways that women authors pushed the limits of writing history in order to participate in contemporary national civic life otherwise closed to them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press Copublishing Division
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781611474954
• ISBN-10: 1611474957
• Artikelnr.: 34390515

Autorenporträt

Lisa Kasmer is an associate professor of English at Clark University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Literariness of History 1 "My heart
will stand the test": Catharine Macaulay and Sympathetic History II.
Traditional Genre and Naive Historical Narrative 2 Political Critique in
Sophia Lee's The Recess and Ann Yearsley's Earl Goodwin III. The "Collapse"
of History and the Imaginary 3 Helen Maria Williams and the "Regendering"
of History 4 Jane Porter's Novel Histories: "Romancing" the British Nation
5 Mary Shelley's Foreclosed History in Valperga IV. "Narrativity" and
Feminist History 6 "The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best
men": Lucy Aikin's Epistles on Women and Memoirs of the Court of Queen
Elizabeth Conclusion: Histories that are Novel Bibliography Index