Seeing suffering in women's literature of the Romantic era
By: Elizabeth A. Dolan.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780754654919
Subjects: Smith, Charlotte Turner, -- 1749-1806 -- Criticism and interpretation; Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Suffering in literature; Literature and medicine; Vision in literature; Romanticism -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Melancholia and the poetics of visibility : Charlotte Smith's Elegiac sonnets; title: Contagion, sympathy, invisibility : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; title: The journey to heal melancholia : Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway; title: Scientific botany as therapy in Charlotte Smith's literature; title: Invisibility and the history of trauma : Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy; title: Seeing poverty : Smith's Rural walks and Wollstonecraft's Original stories as fictional ethnography; title: Unsentimental seeing : Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman and didactic children's literature.