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Novel Histories
British Women Writing History, 1760-1830
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2012
Summary
Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women’s writing. At a time when women’s participation in the republic of letters was both celebrated and reviled, these authors took cues from developments that revolutionized British history writing to push the limits of narrated history to respond to contemporary national politics. Through an examination of the conventions of historical and literary genres; historiography during the period; and the gendering of civic and literary roles, this study shows not only a social, political, and literary lineage among women’s history writing and fiction but also among women’s writing and the writing of history.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright Year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-495-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-496-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
187
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
1 “My heart will stand the test” No access
2 Political Critique in Sophia Lee’s The Recess and Ann Yearsley’s Earl Goodwin No access
3 Helen Maria Williams and the “Regendering” of History No access
4 Jane Porter’s Novel Histories No access
5 Mary Shelley’s Foreclosed History in Valperga No access
6 “The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best men” No access
