Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney

'Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney' examines the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney. It offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction by exploring how the visual details in women's novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more telling about gender politics than scholars have previously acknowledged.

List of contents

Foreword by Caroline Jane Knight; Preface; Introduction: Visuality in Profile; 1. Jane Austen's Aesthetic Vocabulary of Character; 2. Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Reconstructions of Female Identity and Experience; 3. The Gendered Gaze and 'Made-up' Women in Maria Edgeworth's 'Castle Rackrent', 'Ennui' and 'Belinda'; 4. Optical Allusions in Frances Burney's 'Evelina' and 'The Wanderer'; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Dr Jessica A. Volz is an independent British literature scholar and international communications strategist whose research focuses on the forms and functions of visuality in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's novels.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica A. Volz, Volz Jessica A.
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781783086603
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-660-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century; Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series; Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism