LEADER 03814nam 2200697 450 001 9910456372403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8963-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442689633 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019411 035 $a(OCoLC)635459157 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10381980 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478994 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478994 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10453354 035 $a(PQKB)10558356 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430885 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224379 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268197 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672713 035 $a(DE-B1597)465368 035 $a(OCoLC)1013956644 035 $a(OCoLC)944176602 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442689633 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672713 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258368 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019411 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen novelists before Jane Austen $ethe critics and their canons /$fBrian Corman 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 311 $a1-4426-1047-6 311 $a0-8020-9770-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Eighteenth Century -- $t2. 1800-1840 -- $t3. 1840-1880 -- $t4. 1880-1920 -- $t5. 1920-1957 -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix: Novels Cited -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aBy the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question of how and why this came about. Corman provides a systematic survey of the reputations of early women novelists as canons of the novel developed over a period of roughly two hundred years, and, in so doing, suggests reasons for their frequent exclusion.Women Novelists before Jane Austen challenges the view that exclusion from the canon was a simple function of gender and goes deeper to examine potential reasons why certain women writers were overlooked. In the process, it provides an overview of histories of the British novel from the beginning through to the mid-twentieth century, ending with the publication of Watt's famous text. Further, Corman offers a prolegomenon to the important recovery work of the late-twentieth century in which many revised accounts of the history of the novel appeared, essentially improving the scope covered by Watt. This study historicizes the place of early women novelists in the British canon in order to provide an informed context for current views. 606 $aWomen novelists, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen novelists, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.5099287 700 $aCorman$b Brian$f1945-$0910049 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456372403321 996 $aWomen novelists before Jane Austen$92036834 997 $aUNINA