Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era
Author:   Elizabeth A. Dolan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138275355


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era


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Author:   Elizabeth A. Dolan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138275355


ISBN 10:   1138275352
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Illness: Melancholia and the poetics of visibility: Charlotte Smith's Elegaic Sonnets; Contagion, sympathy, invisibility: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Part 2 Healing: The journey to heal melancholia: Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters fron Norway; Scientific botany as therapy: Charlotte Smith's literature; Invisibility and the history of trauma: Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy. Part 3 Social Justice: Seeing poverty: Smith's Rural Walks and Wollstonecraft's Original Stories as fictional ethnography; Unsentimental seeing: Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman and didactic children's literature; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

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'Elizabeth Dolan significantly modifies and deepens our understanding of the Romantic period, as she connects apparently disparate critical trajectories: medical understandings of the physiology of the eye, aesthetic and scientific modalities of seeing, and the discourse of suffering underlying social movements. Women writers, she argues, use this new knowledge to express their own subjectivity in innovative ways. Dolan reads Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley across genres and as they explode gendered constraints to visualize the suffering of neglected Others in radical and unavoidable ways.' Gina Luria Walker, New School University, USA '... Recommended.' Choice '... wide-ranging, interesting...' Keats-Shelley Journal


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Elizabeth A. Dolan is associate professor of English at Lehigh University, USA.

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