TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kasmer,Lisa
TI  - Novel histories: British women writing history, 1760-1830 
SN  - 9781611474961
AV  - PR448.W65 
U1  - 820.9/358 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Madison [N.J.], Lanham, Md.
PB  - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Women historians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Écrits de femmes anglais
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature anglaise
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Historiennes
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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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