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Examination of forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Fanny Burney. Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney argues that the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gaze in women's novels published in Britain between 1778 and 1815 is more significant than scholars have previously acknowledged. The book's innovative survey of the oeuvres of four culturally representative women novelists of the period spanning the Anglo-French War and the Battle of Waterloo reveals the importance of visuality - the continuum linking visual and verbal communication. It provided women novelists with a methodology capable of circumventing the cultural strictures on female expression in a way that concealed resistance within the limits of language. 

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Jessica Volz makes an important contribution to the field of eighteenth-century gender studies. Finally, the `female gaze' is getting her due. -Dr Amanda Foreman, historian and bestselling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Volz looks at how these women novelists dealt with questions of gender politics, the Gothic imagination and other 'optical allusions' - a compelling read. -Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine `Volz's perceptive, careful analysis makes her book a valuable resource for readers of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Burney.' -Claire Denelle Cowart, `Jane Austen Society of North America', JASNA

Volz looks at how these women novelists dealt with questions of gender politics, the Gothic imagination and other 'optical allusions' - a compelling read. -Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine `Volz's perceptive, careful analysis makes her book a valuable resource for readers of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Burney.' -Claire Denelle Cowart, `Jane Austen Society of North America', JASNA

Jessica Volz makes an important contribution to the field of eighteenth-century gender studies. Finally, the 'female gaze' is getting her due. -Dr Amanda Foreman, historian and bestselling author of 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire' Volz looks at how these women novelists dealt with questions of gender politics, the Gothic imagination and other 'optical allusions' - a compelling read. -Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine 'Volz's perceptive, careful analysis makes her book a valuable resource for readers of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Burney.' -Claire Denelle Cowart, 'Jane Austen Society of North America', JASNA (Summer 2019).

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Dr Jessica A. Volz is an independent British literature scholar and international communications strategist whose research focuses on the forms and functions of visuality in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's novels.

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