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Author Kasmer, Lisa, 1961-

Title Novel histories : British women writing history, 1760-1830 / Lisa Kasmer.

Publication Info. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 187 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The literariness of history -- "My heart will stand the test": Catharine Macaulay and sympathetic history -- Traditional genre and naive historical narrative -- Political critique in Sophia Lee's tTe recess and Ann Yearsley's Earl Goodwin -- The "collapse" of history and the imaginary -- Helen Maria Williams and the "Regendering" of history -- Jane Porter's novel histories: "Romancing" the British nation -- Mary Shelley's foreclosed history in Valperga -- "Narrativity" and feminist history -- "The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best men": Lucy Aikin's Epistles on women and memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth -- Conclusion: histories that are novel.
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Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women historians -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Women historians.
Great Britain.
History.
Women historians -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Historiography.
Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kasmer, Lisa, 1961- Novel histories. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012 9781611474954 (DLC) 2011044330 (OCoLC)755698785
ISBN 9781611474961 (electronic book)
1611474965 (electronic book)
9781283640046 (MyiLibrary)
128364004X (MyiLibrary)
9781611474954
1611474957