LEADER 05020oam 2200601I 450 001 9910149379303321 005 20240501153655.0 010 $a1-315-62900-3 010 $a1-317-24273-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315629001 035 $a(CKB)3710000000933629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4732433 035 $a(OCoLC)962411521 035 $a(BIP)59800397 035 $a(BIP)66447391 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000933629 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aDidactic novels and British women's writing, 1790-1820 /$fedited by Hilary Haven 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (225 pages) 225 1 $aGender and Genre ;$v15 311 08$a0-367-17568-1 311 08$a1-138-64413-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. 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 Expose?s : 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. 330 $aTracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic novels were frequently conventional in structure, they provided a venue for women to uphold, to undermine, to interrogate, but most importantly, to write about acceptable social codes and values. The essays discuss the multifaceted ways in which didacticism and women's writing were connected and demonstrate the reforming potential of this feminine and ostensibly constricting genre. Focusing on works by novelists from Jane West to Susan Ferrier, the collection argues that didactic novels within these decades were particularly feminine; that they were among the few acceptable ways by which women could participate in public political debate; and that they often blurred political and ideological boundaries. The first part addresses both conservative and radical texts of the 1790s to show their shared focus on institutional reform and indebtedness to Mary Wollstonecraft, despite their large ideological range. In the second part, the ideas of Hannah More influence the ways authors after the French revolution often linked the didactic with domestic improvement and national unity. The essays demonstrate the means by which the didactic genre works as a corrective not just on a personal and individual level, but at the political level through its focus on issues such as inheritance, slavery, the roles of women and children, the limits of the novel, and English and Scottish nationalism. This book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging picture of how women with various ideological and educational foundations were involved in British political discourse during a time of radical partisanship and social change. 410 0$aGender and genre ;$v15. 606 $aDidactic fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aDidactic fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a823/.6099287 701 $aHavens$b Hilary$0952215 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149379303321 996 $aDidactic novels and British women's writing, 1790-1820$92152646 997 $aUNINA