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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149379303321

Titolo

Didactic novels and British women's writing, 1790-1820 / / edited by Hilary Haven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-62900-3

1-317-24273-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Collana

Gender and Genre ; ; 15

Altri autori (Persone)

HavensHilary

Disciplina

823/.6099287

Soggetti

Didactic fiction, English - History and criticism

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Charlotte Smith and the persistence of the past / Morgan Rooney -- 2. "Vehicles for words of sound doctrine" : Jane West's didactic fiction / Megan Woodworth -- 3. Epistolary Exposés : the marriage market, the slave trade and the "cruel business" of war in Mary Robinson's Angelina / Sharon M. Setzer -- 4. Moral and generic corruption in Eliza Fenwick's secresy / Jonathan Sadow -- 5. Mary Hays and the didactic novel in the 1790s / Ada Sharpe and Eleanor Ty -- 6. Lessons of courtship : Hannah More's Celebs in search of a wife / Patricia Demers -- 7. Maria Edgeworth's moral tales and the problem of youth rebellion in a Revolutionary Age / Andrew O'Malley -- 8. Maria Edgeworth's revisions to nationalism and didacticism in patronage / Hilary Havens -- 9. Didacticism after Hannah More : Elizabeth Hamilton's The cottagers of Glenburnie / Claire Grogan -- 10. A national bildungsroman : didacticism and national identity in Mary Brunton's Discipline and Susan Edmonstone Ferrier's Marriage /  Teri Doerksen.