The excellence of falsehood : romance, realism, and women's contribution to the novel / Deborah Ross.

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Ross, Deborah, 1954-

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text

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9780813158921
0813158923

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823.009/9287 20

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PR830.W6 R67 1991

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17.81
17.87
18.05

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Contents:

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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Summary: ""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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-239) and 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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