Law Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women''s Fiction - Speaking of Dread

Zusatztext 'Its strength lies in Chaplin's ability to weave theoretical insight! historical research and textual analysis together in a series of tightly argued chapters...' BARS Bulletin and Review '...the very real strengths of the book are its thoughtfulness! the pleasingly high ratio of ideas to words! and many illuminating and concise suggestions about the relation between culture and women's fiction.' Eighteenth Century Fiction Informationen zum Autor Sue Chaplin is a Lecturer in English at Leeds Metropolitan University! UK. Klappentext This study offers fresh insight into the culture and politics of the 18th century. It presents highly original readings of well known and lesser known literary texts that interrogate from fresh perspectives the complex theoretical issues pertaining to gender. Zusammenfassung This study offers fresh insight into the culture and politics of the 18th century. It presents highly original readings of well known and lesser known literary texts that interrogate from fresh perspectives the complex theoretical issues pertaining to gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: speaking of dread; Sublime bodies and bodies of law; A material transcendence: the Clarissa ideal; Femininity and the law of romance: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote; The discipline of sensibility: Frances Sheridan's The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph; Speaking of dread: Eliza Fenwick's Secresy! or The Ruin of the Rock; Terror transcendence and control in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya! or The Moor; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Sue Chaplin, Sue Chaplin, Susan Chaplin, Chaplin Sue
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2004
• EAN: 9780754633068
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3306-8
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form