| Description |
xiii, 176 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Case of the Novel -- 2. Critical Irony, Standpoint Theory, and the Novel -- 3. The Women's Framed-Novelle: The French Tradition -- 4. The Women's Framed-Novelle: The Spanish and English Traditions -- 5. Circumstances Alter Cases: Women, Casuistry, and the Novel -- 6. The Nineties Generation: A Feminist Prosaics -- 7. The Case of Violenta -- 8. Women against Romance -- 9. Women and the Latin Rhetorical Tradition |
| Summary |
It has long been recognized that women writers played a significant role in the rise of the novel. Women and the Rise of the Novel is the first systematic theoretical study of early modern women's fiction showing how and why it helped shape the novel's identity. While most studies of the origin of the novel begin with the eighteenth century, Donovan traces women's literary traditions from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, focusing on the early modern period as a starting point. She examines works in Italian, French, and Spanish as well as English, highlighting the contributions of various women writers from Christine de Pizan to Jane Austen |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-168) and index |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Frame-stories -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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| LC no. |
98041947 |
| ISBN |
0312218273 |
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0312230974 |
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