1st Edition
Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756–1816
By Claire Grogan
Copyright 2012
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the first book-length study of the well-respected and popular British writer Elizabeth Hamilton, Claire Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship that enlarges and complicates critical understanding of the Romantic woman writer. From 1797 to 1818, Hamilton published in a wide range of genres, including novels, satires, historical and educational treatises, and historical biography.... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796); Chapter 2 Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) I: Modern Philosophy; Chapter 3 Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) II: Memoirs; Chapter 4 Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina; Chapter 5 The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808);
Biography
Claire Grogan is professor in the Department of English at Bishop's University, Canada.
'... a thoughtful, convincing and very welcome demonstration of the significant literary and political innovations that Hamilton was able to make in her four novels.' Scottish Literary Review '... well researched, well documented, and well argued. It will be useful alongside Grogan's Broadview editions for those interested in the period in a variety of ways and from different points of view ... The book is properly argumentative and provokes answers throughout.' Eighteenth-Century Scotland
