Title Eighteenth-century authorship and the play of fiction : novels and the theater, Haywood to Austen / Emily Hodgson Anderson

Published New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description xiii, 181 pages ; 24 cm Series Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 7 Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 7. Contents Introduction: playing at authorship -- Rehearsing desire: Eliza Haywood's self-conscious performance -- Forgetting the self: Frances Burney and staged insensibility -- Acting as herself: Elizabeth Inchbald and mediated feelings -- Pedagogical performance: Maria Edgeworth's didactic approach to fiction -- Epilogue -- generic revolutions: Mansfield Park and the "womanly style" of fiction Summary This book examines eighteenth-century women writers Haywood, Burney, Inchbald, and Edgeworth, who employed artifice as a means of self-expression through their descriptions of heroines, and through their own authorial choices to work between the eighteenth-century genres that advertise artifice: novels and plays Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and index Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Authorship -- History -- 18th century Expression in literature. Emotions in literature. Self in literature. Women in the theater. Authorship. Emotions in literature. English drama. English fiction. English literature -- Women authors. Expression in literature. Self in literature. Theater. Women in the theater. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Authorship -- History -- 18th century. Expression in literature. Emotions in literature. Self in literature. Women in the theater. Great Britain. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2008048060 ISBN 9780415999052 0415999057 0203877977 9780203877975 9786612016882 6612016884

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