Novel histories
Subtitle: British women writing history, 1760-1830
By: Lisa Kasmer
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611474954; 9781611474961
Subjects: Historiography; History; English literature; History and criticism; Women historians; Women authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The literariness of history; title: "My heart will stand the test": Catharine Macaulay and sympathetic history; title: Traditional genre and naive historical narrative; title: Political critique in Sophia Lee's the recess and Ann Yearsley's Earl Goodwin; title: The "collapse" of history and the imaginary; title: Helen Maria Williams and the "regendering" of history; title: Jane Porter's novel histories: "romancing" the British nation; title: Mary Shelley's foreclosed history in Valperga; title: "Narrativity" and feminist history; title: "The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best men": Lucy Aikin's; title: Epistles on women and memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth; title: Conclusion: histories that are novel.