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Novels of the eighteenth century u.The abundant primary materials and straightforward writing in Women’s Lives and the Eigtheenth-Century English Novel make this a book of interest to scholars of social and cultural history and to students of the novel.
Elizabeth Bergen Brophy’s book is a response to the question which must have occurred to every reader of.
Elizabeth Bergen Brophy’s book is a response to the question which must have occurred to every reader of 18th-century novels: ‘Are the novels really at all like life at the time?’ Were there ‘real life’ counterparts to Clarissa Harlowe and Sophia Western – and to the other ladies, old and young, married, widowed or single, who turn up in the pages of 18th-century novels? .
The English novel is an important part of English literature
The English novel is an important part of English literature. This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, or Scotland, or Wales, or Northern Ireland (or Ireland before 1922).
Women's lives and the 18th-century English novel was merged with this page. Drawing on unpublished documents from the 18th century, written by more than 250 women, the author creates a picture of the real lives of women in the period. She then examines the work of seven novelists in relation to this portrait. 0 people like this topic.
Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women. Brophy, Elizabeth Bergen. Women's Lives and the EighteenthCentury Novel. Ed. Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1997. Tampa: U of South Florida P, 1991. DeJean's book shows us that the standard histories of the Novel produced and believed in the twentieth century are obsolete. Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern. New York: Schocken, 1983.
English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism, Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century . ix, 291 p. : 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-284) and index.
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Novels of the eighteenth century usually offer wedded bliss as a reward to their heroines. How did these novels affect—and how were they affected by—the women who were reading them? By drawing upon thousands of unpublished documents from the era, written by more than 250 women, Brophy creates a picture of the real lives of eighteenth-century women and then examines the work of seven novelists in relation to this portrait.
Excerpts from letters, diaries, and journals, written by women ranging from servants to nobility, reveal the stages of feminine life in the 1700s: dutiful daughter, courted maiden, obedient wife, and pitiful widow or spinster. Their lives are assessed against those portrayed in the works of seven novelists—five women (Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve and Fanny Burney) and two men (Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson).
Fiction both reflects and creates the values of its time. In the eighteenth century, marriage was regarded as every woman’s vocation and the novel often reinforced this conviction. “Only leave me <em>myself</em>,” the heroine’s plea in Richardson’s <em>Clarissa</em>, laments the dependent position of women in the age. However, the novel also influenced the self-perception of eighteenth-century women in a positive way, Brophy asserts, by admiring their intelligence, by condemning sexual transgressions in and out of marriage, and, most important, by placing women at the center of their own stories, as heroines in their own right.
The abundant primary materials and straightforward writing in <em>Women’s Lives and the Eigtheenth-Century English Novel</em> make this a book of interest to scholars of social and cultural history and to students of the novel.
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