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Novel histories : British women writing history, 1760-1830 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kasmer, Lisa, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison [N.J.] : Lanham, Md. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]
Subjects:
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women historians > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women historians > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Historiography > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Historiography > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.