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Novel histories : British women writing history, 1760-1830 / Lisa Kasmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 187 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611474961
  • 1611474965
  • 9781283640046
  • 128364004X
  • 1611474965
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Novel histories.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/358 23
LOC classification:
  • PR448.W65
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Contents:
The literariness of history -- "My heart will stand the test": Catharine Macaulay and sympathetic history -- Traditional genre and naive historical narrative -- Political critique in Sophia Lee's the recess and Ann Yearsley's Earl Goodwin -- The "collapse" of history and the imaginary -- Helen Maria Williams and the "regendering" of history -- Jane Porter's novel histories: "romancing" the British nation -- Mary Shelley's foreclosed history in Valperga -- "Narrativity" and feminist history -- "The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best men": Lucy Aikin's -- Epistles on women and memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth -- Conclusion: histories that are novel.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The literariness of history -- "My heart will stand the test": Catharine Macaulay and sympathetic history -- Traditional genre and naive historical narrative -- Political critique in Sophia Lee's the recess and Ann Yearsley's Earl Goodwin -- The "collapse" of history and the imaginary -- Helen Maria Williams and the "regendering" of history -- Jane Porter's novel histories: "romancing" the British nation -- Mary Shelley's foreclosed history in Valperga -- "Narrativity" and feminist history -- "The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best men": Lucy Aikin's -- Epistles on women and memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth -- Conclusion: histories that are novel.

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