The excellence of falsehood : romance, realism, and women's contribution to the novel /
Ross, Deborah, 1954-
The excellence of falsehood : romance, realism, and women's contribution to the novel / Deborah Ross. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1991. - 1 online resource (249 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-239) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: A Secret History of the English Novel; 1. Oroonoko: A Pastoral History; 2. Delia and Rivella: Romantic Autobiography; 3. Betsy Thoughtless and Harriot Stuart: Unacknowledged Sisters; 4. The Female Quixote: A Realistic Fairy Tale; 5. Fanny Burney's Novels: Romance with Regret; 6. The Italian: A Romance of Manners; 7. Jane Austen's Novels: The Romantic Denouement; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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""The only excellence of falsehood ... is its resemblance to truth, "" proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks -- repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century -- are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels. Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen did not take the clergyman's advice to heart. To them, the ""false
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22573/ctt129f8ww JSTOR
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Realism in literature.
Literary form.
Femmes et littérature--Grande-Bretagne.
Romantisme--Grande-Bretagne.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Genres littéraires.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction--Women authors.
Literary form.
Realism in literature.
Romanticism.
Women and literature.
Romanschriftstellerin
Frauenroman
Aufsatzsammlung
Frau
Roman.
Geschichte (1680-1850)
Geschichte (1688-1840)
Geschichte (1688-1817)
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR830.W6 / R67 1991
823.009/9287
The excellence of falsehood : romance, realism, and women's contribution to the novel / Deborah Ross. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1991. - 1 online resource (249 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-239) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: A Secret History of the English Novel; 1. Oroonoko: A Pastoral History; 2. Delia and Rivella: Romantic Autobiography; 3. Betsy Thoughtless and Harriot Stuart: Unacknowledged Sisters; 4. The Female Quixote: A Realistic Fairy Tale; 5. Fanny Burney's Novels: Romance with Regret; 6. The Italian: A Romance of Manners; 7. Jane Austen's Novels: The Romantic Denouement; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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""The only excellence of falsehood ... is its resemblance to truth, "" proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks -- repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century -- are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels. Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen did not take the clergyman's advice to heart. To them, the ""false
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780813158921 (electronic bk.) 0813158923 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctt129f8ww JSTOR
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Realism in literature.
Literary form.
Femmes et littérature--Grande-Bretagne.
Romantisme--Grande-Bretagne.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Genres littéraires.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction--Women authors.
Literary form.
Realism in literature.
Romanticism.
Women and literature.
Romanschriftstellerin
Frauenroman
Aufsatzsammlung
Frau
Roman.
Geschichte (1680-1850)
Geschichte (1688-1840)
Geschichte (1688-1817)
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR830.W6 / R67 1991
823.009/9287