The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson

ISBN-13: 9781138620834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 220 str.

Susan B. Egenolf

Opis

The author examines the artistic craft and political engagement of three major women novelists-Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson-whose self-conscious use of glosses facilitated their critiques of politics and society.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: the art of the unvarnished tale; Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo Rajah and the making of a professional woman writer; Maria Edgeworth in blackface: Castle Rackrent and the Irish rebellion of 1798; Edgeworth's Belinda; an artful composition; Revolutionary landscapes: political aesthetics and Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl; 'Domestic rebellion': Hamilton's Cottagers of Glenburnie; 'Have you Irish?': heroism in Morgan's The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Susan B. Egenolf  is Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University.