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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Havens, Hilary, editor, contributor.

Series:

Gender and genre ; no. 15.

Gender and genre ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Didactic fiction, English--History and criticism.

Didactic fiction, English.

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction--Women authors.

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

Women and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

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

Physical Description:

vi, 214 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction / Hilary Havens

Charlotte Smith and the persistence of the past / Morgan Rooney

"Vehicles for words of sound doctrine": Jane West's didactic fiction / Megan Woodworth

Epistolary exposés: the marriage market, the slave trade and the "cruel business" of war in Mary Robinson's Angelina / Sharon M. Setzer

Moral and generic corruption in Eliza Fenwick's secresy / Jonathan Sadow

Mary Hays and the didactic novel in the 1790s / Ada Sharpe and Eleanor Ty

Lessons of courtship: Hannah More's Cœlebs in search of a wife / Patricia Demers

Maria edgeworth?s moral tales and the problem of youth rebellion in a revolutionary age / Andrew O'Malley

Maria Edgeworth's revisions to nationalism and didacticism in patronage / Hilary Havens

Didacticism after Hannah More: Elizabeth Hamilton's Cottagers of Glenburnie / Caire Grogan

A national bildungsroman: didacticism and national identity in Mary Brunton's discipline and Susan Edmonstone Ferrier's marriage / Teri Doerksen

Afterword / Shelley King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138644137

1138644137

OCLC:

962303330

Publisher Number:

99970188499