TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross,Deborah
TI  - The excellence of falsehood: romance, realism, and women's contribution to the novel 
SN  - 9780813158921
AV  - PR830.W6 R67 1991
U1  - 823.009/9287 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Realism in literature
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Femmes et littérature
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Romantisme
KW  - Réalisme dans la littérature
KW  - Genres littéraires
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Romanschriftstellerin
KW  - gnd
KW  - Frauenroman
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Frau
KW  - Roman
KW  - swd
KW  - Geschichte (1680-1850)
KW  - Geschichte (1688-1840)
KW  - Geschichte (1688-1817)
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - ""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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