Elizabeth A. Dolan

Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

As she explores tropes of illness, healing, and social justice in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley, Dolan engages with a wide range of primary sources in science and medicine. She argues that the Romantic-era interest in the physiology of vision influenced the culture's understanding of suffering, and that these three authors experimented with materialist modes of seeing in order to expand the language of suffering and to claim literary authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351901338
• Artikelnr.: 49366474

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Dolan is associate professor of English at Lehigh University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Illness: Melancholia and the poetics of
visibility: Charlotte Smith's Elegaic Sonnets; Contagion, sympathy,
invisibility: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Part 2 Healing: The journey to
heal melancholia: Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters fron Norway; Scientific
botany as therapy: Charlotte Smith's literature; Invisibility and the
history of trauma: Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy. Part 3
Social Justice: Seeing poverty: Smith's Rural Walks and Wollstonecraft's
Original Stories as fictional ethnography; Unsentimental seeing:
Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman and didactic children's literature;
Afterword; Bibliography; Index.