Sentimental memorials : women and the novel in literary history / Melissa Sodeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sodeman, Melissa, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

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

Women and literature--England--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

Sentimentalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Sentimental Memorials' explores how popular women writers used the art form of the novel to record their changing relations to literary history. At the end of the eighteenth century, as sentimental fiction slipped out of emerging conceptions of literary value, Sophia Lee, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Robinson reflected on what changes in literature's meaning and status would mean for their own works and legacies. Their novels provide a means of understanding how women novelists clarified, protested, and finally memorialised the historical conditions under which they wrote.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Sophia Lee’s Historical Sensibility

2. Reading and Remembering Ann Radcliffe

3. Charlotte Smith’s Literary Exile

4. Mary Robinson and the Wreath of Fame

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804792790

0804792798

OCLC:

923710329