Visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney / Jessica A. Volz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volz, Jessica A., author.

Series:

Anthem nineteenth century studies

The Anthem nineteenth-century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

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

English fiction--Women authors.

Visual perception in literature.

Sex role in literature.

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

Politics and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

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

Women and literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 240 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney argues that the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gaze in women's novels published in Britian between 1778 and 1815 in more significant than scholar have previously acknowledged. The book's explores how in fiction and in actuality, women negotiated four scopic forces that determined innovative survey of the oeuvres of four culturally representative women novelists of the period spanning the Anglo-French War and the Battle of Waterloo reveals the importance of visuality - the continuum linking visual and verbal communication. It provided women novelists with a methodology capable of circumventing the culture structures on female expression in a way that conccaled resistance within the limits of language in contexts dominated by 'frustrated utterance, penetrating gazes and the perpetual threat of misinterpretation. Jane Austein, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney used references to the visible and the invisible to comment on emotions, socio-economic conditions and patriarchal abuses. Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Roedcliffe Edgeworth conditions and patriarchal abuses. Visuality in the Novels of Austin, Rodcliffe Edgeworth and Burney offers new insight into verbal economy and the gender politics of the era by reassessing expression and perception from a uniquely telling point of view. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Jane Austen's Aesthetic Vocabulary of Character 27

2 Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Reconstructions of Female Identity and Experience 87

3 The Gendered Gaze and 'Made-up' Women in Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Ennui and Belinda 137

4 Optical Allusions in Frances Burney's Evelina and The Wanderer 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783086603

1783086602

OCLC:

964277087