Ritual Violence and the Maternal in the British Novel, 1740-1820

This book brings to light a mythic dimension of seventeen important eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century narratives that revolve around the persecution of one or more important female characters, and offers original readings of novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Radcliffe, Godwin, Austen, Scott, and others. The myth in question, which Raymond Hilliard calls 'the myth of persecution and reparation, ' serves as a major vehicle for the early novel's preoccupation with the 'mother, ' a mythic figure distinct from the historical mother or from the mother as she is represented in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century maternal ideology.

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By Raymond Hilliard

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• Authors: Raymond Hilliard, Raymond F. Hilliard
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611484045
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-404-5
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies