1st Edition
Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820
Introduction Hilary Havens 1. Charlotte Smith and the Persistence of the Past Morgan Rooney 2. "Vehicles for Words of Sound Doctrine": Jane West’s Didactic Fiction Megan Woodworth 3. Epistolary Exposés: The Marriage Market, the Slave Trade, and the ‘Cruel Business’ of War in Mary Robinson’s Angelina Sharon M. Setzer 4. Moral and Generic Corruption in Eliza Fenwick’s Secresy Jonathan Sadow 5. Mary Hays and the Didactic Novel in the 1790s Eleanor Ty and Ada Sharpe 6. Lessons of Courtship: Hannah More’s Cœlebs in Search of a Wife Patricia Demers 7. Maria Edgeworth’s Moral Tales and the Problem of Youth Rebellion in a Revolutionary Age Andrew O’Malley 8. Maria Edgeworth’s Revisions to Nationalism and Didacticism in Patronage Hilary Havens 9. Didacticism After Hannah More: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Cottagers of Glenburnie Claire Grogan 10. A National Bildungsroman: Didacticism and National Identity in Mary Brunton’s Discipline and Susan Edmonstone Ferrier’s Marriage Teri Doerksen Afterword Shelley King
Biography
Hilary Havens is an assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She has written articles on Frances Burney, Charlotte Lennox, Nahum Tate, and digital approaches to paleography.
