Novel histories : British women writing history, 1760-1830
Type
Book
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Category
Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
2012
Subject
English literature-Women authors-History and criticism;English literature-18th century-History and criticism;English literature-19th century-History and criticism;Women historians-Great Britain-History-18th century
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(SBN) 9781611474954 (cloth : alk. paper)||(SBN) 9781611474961 (electronic)||(SBN) 1611474965 (electronic)||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references and index.||(CON) The literariness of history -- "My heart will stand the test": Catharine Macaulay and sympathetic history -- Traditional genre and naive historical narrative -- Political critique in Sophia Lee's the recess and Ann Yearsley's Earl Goodwin -- The "collapse" of history and the imaginary -- Helen Maria Williams and the "regendering" of history -- Jane Porter's novel histories: "romancing" the British nation -- Mary Shelley's foreclosed history in Valperga -- "Narrativity" and feminist history -- "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.
Biblio Notes
x, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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