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English literature Women authors History and criticism Femmes Angleterre Conditions sociales 17e siècle Femmes et littérature Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle Littérature anglaise 17e siècle Histoire et critique Renaissance Angleterre Renaissance England Roman anglais 18e siècle Histoire et critique Women and literature Great Britain History 17th century Women England Social conditions 17th century Écrits de femmes anglais Histoire et critiqueFilter By Subjects
English literature Women authors History and criticism Femmes Angleterre Conditions sociales 17e siècle Femmes et littérature Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle Littérature anglaise 17e siècle Histoire et critique Renaissance Angleterre Renaissance England Roman anglais 18e siècle Histoire et critique Women and literature Great Britain History 17th century Women England Social conditions 17th century Écrits de femmes anglais Histoire et critiqueBeasley, Jerry C.
Contents: 1. Fiction in the 1740s: backgrounds, topics, strategies -- 2. Romance and the "new" novels of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett -- 3. Fiction as contemporary history -- 4. Fiction as contemporary biography: tales of low life -- 5. Fiction as contemporary biography: records of spiritual life -- 6. "Novelistic" fiction in the 1740s -- 7. Fiction as artifice: the achievement of Henry Fielding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1982
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Summary: "A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024