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.
Whatever happened to the epistolary novel? This is an innovative account of the disintegration of one of the principal narrative forms of the eighteen...
..". provocative insights."--Nineteenth-Century Literature
..". a series of well researched and persuasive essays examining what has been traditionally excluded from the Romantic literary canon: the feminine, the domestic, the local, collective, sentimental and novelistic." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter
..". a contribution of real quality to ongoing debates." --British Journal for 18th Century Studies
The essays in this collection question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings...
..". provocative insights."--Nineteenth-Century Literature
..". a series of well researched and persuasive essays examining what has been tra...
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats, Burns and Scott, the Bronte sisters, and Thomas Hardy. Invaluable for the student of travel and literature of the nineteenth century."
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Brit...
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats, Burns and Scott, the Bronte sisters, and Thomas Hardy. Invaluable for the student of travel and literature of the nineteenth century."
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Brit...
This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, among others, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth.
This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. In...
