The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson

The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson

Author: Susan B. Egenolf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1351147706

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Even as Romantic-period authors asserted the importance of telling the unvarnished truth, novelists were deploying narrative glossing in particularly sophisticated forms. The author examines the artistic craft and political engagement of three major women novelists-Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson-whose self-conscious use of glosses facilitated their critiques of politics and society. All three writers employed devices such as prefaces and editorial notes, as well as alternative media, especially painting and drama, to comment on the narrative. The effect of these disparate media, the author argues, is to call the reader's attention away from the narrative itself. That is, such glossing or 'varnishing' creates narrative ruptures that offer the reader a glimpse of the process of fictional structuring and often reveal the novel's indebtedness to a particular historical moment. In spite, or perhaps because, of their being gendered feminine in eighteenth-century rhetorical commentary, therefore, these glosses allow women writers to participate in 'masculine' discussions outside the conventional domestic sphere. Informed by a wide range of archival texts and examples from the visual arts, and highlighting the 1798 Irish Rebellion as a major event in Irish and British Romantic writing, the author's study offers a new interdisciplinary reading of gendered and political responses to key events in the history of Romanticism.


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Indian Antiquities Or Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce and the Various and Profound Literature of Hindostan Compared Throughout with the Religion, Laws, Government and Literature of Persia, Egypt and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to the History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale

Author: Thomas Maurice

Publisher:

Published: 1806

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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