Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790-1825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions

ISBN-13: 9780198112976 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 234 str.

Dr Nicola J. Watson

Opis

Whatever happened to the epistolary novel? This is an innovative account of the disintegration of one of the principal narrative forms of the eighteenth century in favor of more authoritarian, third-person models designed to underwrite a new version of British national identity in the Napoleonic period. It offers provocative political readings of authors including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, Charles Maturin, William Hazlitt, and Lord Byron.

Recenzje

Densely argued, clever in its interpretaton of texts - autobigraphical, biographical as well as novelistic - and displaying considerable sophistication in the deployment of contemporary narrative terminology.