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