Seeing suffering in women's literature of the Romantic era
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Subject
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851-Criticism and interpretation;Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806-Criticism and interpretation;Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797-Criticism and interpretation
Description
(SBN) 9780754654919 (hbk.) :||(GEN) Formerly CIP.||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.||(CON) Melancholia and the poetics of visibility : Charlotte Smith's Elegiac sonnets -- Contagion, sympathy, invisibility : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- The journey to heal melancholia : Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway -- Scientific botany as therapy in Charlotte Smith's literature -- Invisibility and the history of trauma : Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy -- 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.
Biblio Notes
viii, 249 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. (hbk)
Number of Copies
1