LEADER 04358nam 22007335 450 001 9911009372903321 005 20230102050911.0 010 $a1-4426-6740-0 010 $a1-4426-6739-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442667396 035 $a(CKB)4100000007877959 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5743858 035 $a(DE-B1597)527532 035 $a(OCoLC)1091899763 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442667396 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106462 035 $a(PPN)25901690X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007877959 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNovel Cleopatras $eRomance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688-1785 /$fNicole Horejsi 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (291 pages) 311 $a1-4426-4714-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Demythologizing Dido: Epic and Romance; 1 "Pulcherrima Dido": Jane Barker and the Epic of Exile; 2 "What Is There of a Woman Worth Relating?" Revising the Aeneid in Henry Fielding's Amelia; Part 2: Mythologizing Cleopatra: Romance Historiography and the Queens of Egypt; 3 "A Pattern to Ensuing Ages": Reinventing Historical Practice in Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote; 4 Performing Augustan History in Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia 327 $a5 Whose "Wild and Extravagant Stories"? Clara Reeve's The Progress of Romance and The History of Charoba, Queen of AEgyptEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases its origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture. Novel Cleopatras also rewrites the essential role of women writers in history who were typically underestimated as active participants of neoclassical culture, often excluded from the same schools that taught their brothers Greek and Latin. However, as author Nicole Horejsi reveals, the novel was not only accessible to most women, but a number of exceptional middle-class women were actually serious students of the classics. In order to dismiss the idea that women were completely marginalized as neoclassical writers, Horejsi take up the character of Dido from ancient Greek mythology, and her real-life counter-part, the queen of Egypt, who was eventually reinvented in Virgil's Romance epics as the queen of Carthage. Together, the legendary Dido and historical Cleopatra serve as figures for the conflation of myth and history. Horejsi contends that turning to the doomed queens who haunted the Roman imagination enabled eighteenth-century novelists to seize the productive overlap among the categories of history, romance, the novel, even the epic, and therefore to intervene in one of the founding narratives of Western civilization and rewrite it for their own ends."--$cProvided by publisher 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aBritish literature. 610 $aCleopatra. 610 $aDido. 610 $aEnglish fiction. 610 $aGreek mythology. 610 $aconflation. 610 $aeighteenth-century literature. 610 $aeighteenth-century novel. 610 $af myth and history. 610 $ahistoriography. 610 $ahistory of women?s writing. 610 $aliterature. 610 $aromance. 610 $awomen novelists. 610 $awomen writers. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.509 686 $acci1icc$2lacc 686 $acoll13$2lacc 700 $aHorejsi$b Nicole, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01826175 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911009372903321 996 $aNovel Cleopatras$94394129 997 $aUNINA