Smollett's Women - A Study in an Eighteenth-Century Masculine Sensibility

Informationen zum Autor ROBERT D. SPECTOR is Professor Emeritus of English and coordinator of both the divisions of Humanities and of Communications, Fine and Performing Arts at Long Island University in Brooklyn. Author of more than 400 articles and reviews, he has published ten books, nine on eighteenth century topics. Previous books include Smollett's Women: A Study in an Eighteenth-Century Masculine Sensibility (1994), Political Controversy: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Propaganda (1992), Backgrounds to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide to Modern Scholarship (1989), and The English Gothic: A Bibliographic Guide to Writers from Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley (1984), all published by Greenwood. Klappentext Although Smollett's obvious masculine sensibility has become a commonplace in criticism of the 18th-century novel, the basis and particularities of that sensibility have never been examined. In actuality, his treatment of women--heroines, victims, and comic or grotesque--proves far more complex than conventional commentary suggests. This study attempts to show that in each category Smollett's treatment depends on the fictional purposes that these characters serve in his novels. Zusammenfassung Although Smollett's obvious masculine sensibility has become a commonplace in criticism of the 18th-century novel! the basis and particularities of that sensibility have never been examined. This study attempts to show that in each category Smollett's treatment depends on the fictional purposes that these characters serve in his novels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Shaping Forces: Society, Personality, and Literary Tradition Heroines Fallen Women and Women as Victims Comic and Grotesque Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Spector, Robert D. Spector, Robert Donald Spector
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780313287909
• ISBN: 978-0-313-28790-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Contributions to the Study of; Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; 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, The Arts: World Literature