First published in an era when most novels about young women concentrated on courtship and ended with marriage, The Recess daringly portrays women involved in political intrigues, overseas journeys, and even warfare. The novel is set during the reign of Elizabeth I and features as narrators twin daughters of Mary, Queen of Scots, by a secret marriage. One of the earliest Gothic novels, The Recess pioneered the genre of historical fiction. The novel was also one of the first to describe characters and events from conflicting points of view and was wildly popular in its...
First published in an era when most novels about young women concentrated on courtship and ended with marriage, The Recess daringly portrays...
This study focuses on fiction written by women in the eighteenth century to demonstrate how authors of the period implicitly examined and resisted patrilineal models of relationship, including the notions of literary tradition and of women's place in the family and the domestic sphere. The author's analysis of fiction from Lafayette to Austen argues that the concept of -correspondence, - as exemplified in epistolary fiction, leads to a deeper understanding of the connections among French and English women's works of the period. The author shows how coherences of plot, theme, form, and image...
This study focuses on fiction written by women in the eighteenth century to demonstrate how authors of the period implicitly examined and resisted pat...
