History of the Countess of Dellwyn, By Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding was one of the most respected women authors of her generation and a key figure in the development of the novel. This edition revives The Countess of Dellwyn, the only one of Sarah Fielding's major works not previously available in a modern scholarly edition. The novel is satirical and didactic, taking as its targets fashionable life and modern marriage (and scandalous divorce) and narrated with acerbic wit by its anonymous third-person narrator.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Select Bibliography
Chronology of Sarah Fielding
A Note on the Text
Dellwyn Title Page
The Preface
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Appendix: Contemporary Reviews
Notes

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Skinner
• Assisted by: Gillian Skinner (Editor), Skinner Gillian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.04.2022
• EAN: 9781138544482
• ISBN: 978-1-138-54448-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800