Popular fiction by women, 1660-1730 : an anthology
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Popular fiction by women, 1660-1730 : an anthology
Clarendon Press, 1996
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全17件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
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注記
Includes bibliographical references
収録内容
- The history of the nun / Aphra Behn
- The secret history of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians / Delarivière Manley
- Love intrigues / Jane Barker
- The strange aadventures of the Count de Vinevil and his family / Penelope Aubin
- The British recluse / Eliza Haywood
- Fantomina / Eliza Haywood
- The reformed coquet / Mary Davys
- Friendship in death : selections / Elizabeth Singer Rowe
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780198711360
内容説明
This is a collection of novels by women writers in the period 1660-1730. Work by the major writers of the period is included - Aphra Behn, Mary de la Riviere Manley, Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, Mary Davys, and Elizabeth Singer Rower. In a variety of styles, these novels provide a sampling of the kinds of stories that are still read today. These include romance, hardship overcome, seduction, rape, kidnapping, murder, political intrigue, and comic revenge. Between them, they help to fill out the early history of the English novel - as these women joined Daniel Defoe in being the most popular and successful novelists before Samuel Richardson.
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: pbk ISBN 9780198711377
内容説明
Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730 gathers together for the first time a representative selection of shorter fiction by the most successful women writers of the period, from Aphra Behn, the first important English female professional writer, to Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood, who with Daniel Defoe dominated prose fiction in the 1720s. The texts included were amongst the best-selling titles of their time, and played a key role in the expanding market for
narrative in the early eighteenth century. Crucial to the development of the longer novel of manners and morals that emerged in the mid-eighteenth century, these novellas have been neglected by literary historians, but now - with the impetus of feminist criticism - they have been re-established as an
essential chapter in the history of the novel in English and are widely studied. Though strikingly varied in narrative format and purpose, ranging as they do from the errotic and sensational to the sentimental and pious, they offer a distinct fictional approach to the moral and social issues of the age from a female standpoint.
Not only are these novels still a good read for those who enjoy fiction, but they are also essential to the understanding of the hostory of the English novel. The anthology raises a number of questions for readers and scholars alike: do these fictions constitute a counter-tradition or a rival and competing set of narrative choices to the male novel of the mid-eighteenth century? The diveristy of these stories, their affinities with the mainstream in some cases and their clear divergence from
it in others, illuminates the very complexity of the issue. Yet, whatever the answer the reader settles on and whatever critical perspective one brings to reading this fiction, one thing is clear: fiction by women is an important part of the literary history of the eighteenth century.
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