Watson, Nicola
(1994).
Revolution and the Form of the British Novel 1790-1825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions.
Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Abstract
This study seeks to explain the vanishing of epistolary fiction in the romantic period, exploring the letter as it appears in radical and conservative, historical and gothic fiction, and tracing a shift in fictional fashion from the epistolary, feminized, and sentimental to a more authoritarian third-person mode. It describes this shift as a response to the anxieties aroused by the French Revolution and as part of a wider redrawing of the relation between the individual and social consensus.
| Item Type: |
Authored Book
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| Copyright Holders: |
1994 Oxford University Press |
| ISBN: |
0-19-811297-1, 978-0-19-811297-6 |
| Keywords: |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Hays; Helen Maria Williams; Eliza Fenwick; Charlotte Smith; Jane West; Elizabeth Hamilton; Maria Edgeworth; Jane Austen; Lady Sydney Morgan; Charles Maturin; William Hazlitt; James Hogg; Caroline Lamb; George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
18705 |
| Depositing User: |
Nicola Watson
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| Date Deposited: |
21 Oct 2009 09:56 |
| Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2012 09:31 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/18705 |
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