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Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820 (Hardcover)
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Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820 (Hardcover)
Series: Gender and Genre
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Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over
the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how
British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political
debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the
Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic novels were frequently
conventional in structure, they provided a venue for women to
uphold, to undermine, to interrogate, but most importantly, to
write about acceptable social codes and values. The essays discuss
the multifaceted ways in which didacticism and women's writing were
connected and demonstrate the reforming potential of this feminine
and ostensibly constricting genre. Focusing on works by novelists
from Jane West to Susan Ferrier, the collection argues that
didactic novels within these decades were particularly feminine;
that they were among the few acceptable ways by which women could
participate in public political debate; and that they often blurred
political and ideological boundaries. The first part addresses both
conservative and radical texts of the 1790s to show their shared
focus on institutional reform and indebtedness to Mary
Wollstonecraft, despite their large ideological range. In the
second part, the ideas of Hannah More influence the ways authors
after the French revolution often linked the didactic with domestic
improvement and national unity. The essays demonstrate the means by
which the didactic genre works as a corrective not just on a
personal and individual level, but at the political level through
its focus on issues such as inheritance, slavery, the roles of
women and children, the limits of the novel, and English and
Scottish nationalism. This book offers a comprehensive and
wide-ranging picture of how women with various ideological and
educational foundations were involved in British political
discourse during a time of radical partisanship and social change.
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