1st Edition

Frances Brooke’s Emancipatory Sensibility

By Michaela Vance Copyright 2027
260 Pages
by Routledge

Frances Brooke’s Emancipatory Sensibility  centers on an outstanding woman writer whose educational beliefs were consistently liberal and generously favored freedoms that allowed for mistakes as a way of acquiring experience. Brooke also believed in inborn virtue, and her cultural engagement with related philosophies of the human mind and its cultivation deserves greater scholarly attention.... Read more

Introduction; Part I; Chapter 1. Frances Brooke’s Periodical, Translations, and Novels in Context: A Short Introduction; Chapter 2. The Old Maid; Chapter 3. The History of Lady Julia Mandeville; Chapter 4. The History of Emily Montague; Chapter 5. The Excursion; Part II; Chapter 6. Brooke’s Tragedies and Comic Operas in Context: A Short Introduction; Chapter 7. Virginia; Chapter 8. The Siege of Sinope; Chapter 9. Rosina; Chapter 10. Marian; Conclusion

Biography

Dr. Michaela Vance is a researcher in eighteenth-century literature specializing in theories of education, virtue, and narrative. She has published on the role of the humanities in military education, focusing on critical and creative thinking. Her first monograph is the result of over a decade of research on Brooke, having begun as a PhD thesis at Stockholm University. Based in Stockholm with her husband Shawn, daughters Saga and Vera, and perpetual puppy Peralta, she teaches English at the Swedish Defence University.