1st Edition
The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson
By Susan B. Egenolf
Copyright 2009
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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Even as Romantic-period authors asserted the importance of telling the unvarnished truth, novelists were deploying narrative glossing in particularly sophisticated forms. The author examines the artistic craft and political engagement of three major women novelists-Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson-whose self-conscious use of glosses facilitated their critiques of politics... Read more
Contents: Introduction: the art of the unvarnished tale; Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo Rajah and the making of a professional woman writer; Maria Edgeworth in blackface: Castle Rackrent and the Irish rebellion of 1798; Edgeworth's Belinda; an artful composition; Revolutionary landscapes: political aesthetics and Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl; 'Domestic rebellion': Hamilton's Cottagers of Glenburnie; 'Have you Irish?': heroism in Morgan's The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Susan B. Egenolf is Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University.
