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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Amelia Opie"”.
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Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Women's Antislavery Verse, 1785--1865
… prose with the elevated verse of writers such as Amelia Opie and Hannah More. My final chapter analyzes the evolution the British tradition to the United States of America. Close reading the verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, my dissertation shows the connections between the turmoil of an …
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The spirit of cleavage : pedagogy, gender, and reform in early nineteenth-century British women's fiction
… women novelists--Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Amelia Opie, Hannah More, Sydney Owenson, and Mary Brunton--attempt to reconstruct culturally dominant gender representations through their discourse on education. More pointedly, I measure the possible efficacy of these reformist efforts in light …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… novelists Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, and Amelia Opie were not content with stick-figure heroes and villains. Their richly drawn male characters are deeply embedded in late-Georgian controversies over men’s status, responsibilities, and behavior, reflecting what I term the “crisis of …