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Sentimental memorials : women and the novel in literary history / Melissa Sodeman

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Sodeman, Melissa, 1978-
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
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1 online resource (x, 186 pages)
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Language Note
Text in English.
Contents
Sophia Lee's historical sensibility -- Reading and remembering Ann Radcliffe -- Charlotte Smith's literary exile -- Mary Robinson and the wreath of fame.
Summary
During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in various political and cultural debates rather than their literary significance. Sentimental Memorials, by contrast, argues that sentimental novels gave the women who wrote them a means of clarifying, protesting, and finally memorializing the historical conditions under which they wrote. As women writers successfully navig.
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ISBN
9780804792790 (electronic bk.)
0804792798 (electronic bk.)
9780804791328
0804791325
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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