Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction: Speaking of Dread

ISBN-13: 9780754633068 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 176 str.

Sue Chaplin

Opis

This study offers fresh insight into the culture and politics of the 18th century. It presents highly original readings of well known and lesser known literary texts that interrogate from fresh perspectives the complex theoretical issues pertaining to gender.

Recenzje

'Its strength lies in Chaplin's ability to weave theoretical insight, historical research and textual analysis together in a series of tightly argued chapters...' BARS Bulletin and Review ’...the very real strengths of the book are its thoughtfulness, the pleasingly high ratio of ideas to words, and many illuminating and concise suggestions about the relation between culture and women's fiction.’ Eighteenth Century Fiction

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: speaking of dread; Sublime bodies and bodies of law; A material transcendence: the Clarissa ideal; Femininity and the law of romance: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote; The discipline of sensibility: Frances Sheridan's The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph; Speaking of dread: Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, or The Ruin of the Rock; Terror transcendence and control in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya, or The Moor; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Sue Chaplin is a Lecturer in English at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.