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Author:

Dolan, Elizabeth A.

Title:

Seeing suffering in women's literature of the Romantic era / Elizabeth A. Dolan.

Publisher:

Ashgate Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 249 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Smith, Charlotte Turner,--1749-1806--Criticism and interpretation.
Wollstonecraft, Mary,--1759-1797--Criticism and interpretation.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
Suffering in literature.
Literature and medicine.
Vision in literature.
Romanticism--Great Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.

Contents:

Melancholia and the poetics of visibility : Charlotte Smith's Elegiac sonnets -- Contagion, sympathy, invisibility : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- The journey to heal melancholia : Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway -- Scientific botany as therapy in Charlotte Smith's literature -- Invisibility and the history of trauma : Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy -- Seeing poverty : Smith's Rural walks and Wollstonecraft's Original stories as fictional ethnography -- Unsentimental seeing : Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman and didactic children's literature.

ISBN:

0754654915 (alk. paper)
9780754654919 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)176648866

LCCN:

2007042382

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)