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Author:

Kasmer, Lisa, 1961-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

x, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1611474965 (electronic)
9781611474961 (electronic)
1611474957 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611474954 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)755698785

LCCN:

2011044330

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)