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Seeing suffering in women's literature of the Romantic era

Title
Seeing suffering in women's literature of the Romantic era / Elizabeth A. Dolan.
Author
Dolan, Elizabeth A.
Publication
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2008.

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Description
viii, 249 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Criticism and interpretation
  • English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Suffering in literature
  • Literature and medicine
  • Vision in literature
  • Romanticism > Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.
Contents
Melancholia and the poetics of visibility : Charlotte Smith's Elegiac sonnets -- Contagion, sympathy, invisibility : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- The journey to heal melancholia : Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway -- Scientific botany as therapy in Charlotte Smith's literature -- Invisibility and the history of trauma : Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy -- Seeing poverty : Smith's Rural walks and Wollstonecraft's Original stories as fictional ethnography -- Unsentimental seeing : Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman and didactic children's literature.
Call Number
JFE 08-7446
ISBN
  • 9780754654919 (alk. paper)
  • 0754654915 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2007042382
OCLC
  • 176648866
  • vendorOCN176648866
Author
Dolan, Elizabeth A.
Title
Seeing suffering in women's literature of the Romantic era / Elizabeth A. Dolan.
Imprint
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 08-7446
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