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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 pages)
• Disciplina: 823/.6099287
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: HavensHilary
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Tracing 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Didactic novels and British women's writing, 1790-1820
• ISBN: 1-315-62900-3; 1-317-24273-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910149379303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender and genre ; ; 15.