num_pages: 192
description: It has long been recognized that women writers played a significant role in the rise of the novel. Women and the Rise of the Novel is the first systematic theoretical study of early modern womens fiction showing how and why it helped shape the novels identity. While most studies of the origin of the novel begin with the eighteenth century Donovan traces womens literary traditions from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries focusing on the early modern period as a starting point. She examines works in Italian French and Spanish as well as English highlighting the contributions of various women writers from Christine de Pizan to Jane Austen.
language: English
title: Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan