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Law, sensibility, and the sublime in eighteenth-century women's fiction : speaking of dread

Title
Law, sensibility, and the sublime in eighteenth-century women's fiction : speaking of dread / Susan Chaplin.
Author
Chaplin, Susan, 1967-
Publication
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.

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Description
165 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Law in literature
  • Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
  • Law and literature > History > 18th century
  • Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature
  • Sublime, The > History > 18th century
  • Sublime, The, in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-157) and index.
Contents
Introduction : speaking of dread -- 1. Sublime bodies and bodies of law -- 2. A material transcendence : the Clarissa ideal -- 3. Femininity and the law of romance : Charlotte Lennox's the Female Quixote -- 4. The discipline of sensiblity : Frances Sheridan's the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph -- 5. Speaking of dread : Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, or the Ruin on the rock -- 6. Terror transcendence and control in Ann Radcliffe's the Italian and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya, or the Moor
Call Number
JFD 04-11049
ISBN
0754633063 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003052347
OCLC
52349043
Author
Chaplin, Susan, 1967-
Title
Law, sensibility, and the sublime in eighteenth-century women's fiction : speaking of dread / Susan Chaplin.
Imprint
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-157) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 04-11049
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