Title Revolution and the form of the British novel, 1790-1825 : intercepted letters, interrupted seductions / Nicola J. Watson

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations Contents Frontispiece: Le Coterie Debouche -- Introduction: Revolutionary Letters -- 1. Julie Among the Jacobins: Radicalism and the Sentimental Novel, 1790-1800 -- 2. Redirecting the Letter: Counter-Revolutionary Tactics, 1800-1819 -- 3. Consigning the Heroine to History: National and Historical Tales, 1800-1825 -- 4. Compromising Letters: Shades of the Sentimental, 1811-1815 Summary Whatever happened to the epistolary novel? Why was it that by 1825 the principal narrative form of eighteenth-century fiction had been replaced by the third-person and often historicized models which have predominated ever since? Nicola Watson's original and wide-ranging study charts the suppression of epistolary fiction, exploring the attempted radicalization of the genre by Wollstonecraft and other feminists in the 1790s; its rejection and parody by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth: the increasingly discredited role played by letters in the historical novels of Jane Porter, Sydney Morgan, and Walter Scott; and their troubling, ghostly presence in the gothic narratives of James Hogg and Charles Maturin. The shift in narrative method is seen as a response to anxieties about the French Revolution, with the epistolary, feminized, and sentimental plot replaced by a more authoritarian third-person mode as part of a wider redrawing of the relation between the individual and social consensus. This is a brilliant and innovative reading of the place of the novel in the reformulation of British national identity in the Napoleonic period, throwing new light on writers as diverse as Hazlitt, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, Helen Maria Williams, and Byron Analysis English fiction History, 1745-1837 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-209) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Epistolary fiction, English -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric Literary form -- History -- 18th century Literary form -- History -- 19th century English fiction -- French influences Point of view (Literature) Seduction in literature. Letters in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Literary form. English fiction -- French influences. English language -- Rhetoric. Letters in literature. Literary form. Narration (Rhetoric) Point of view (Literature) Public opinion, British. Seduction in literature. Französische Revolution Nationalbewusstsein Briefroman Erzähltechnik Französische Revolution Motiv Roman Briefromans. Engels. Verteltheorie. Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc. Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc. Roman épistolaire anglais -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc. Roman anglais -- Influence française. SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion, British Subject France. Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191670893 0191670898

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