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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Sentimental Novel"”.
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GENDERED GENRE CONVENTIONS IN SOPHIA LEE’S THE RECESS
… a key role in the development of the British novel. Written in the period between the rise of sentimental novels like Richardson’s Clarissa and Pamela in the 1740s and the explosion of popular historical-Gothic romances in the 1790s, Lee’s novel combines and experiments with the emerging …
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Gender, Form, and Interiority in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
… they are shaped by the sub-genres of the serial novel, the sentimental novel, and the novel of sensation. I explore Thomas Hardy’s adjustments of traditional forms to new paths, including his vision of a new sort of stealth-realism, in the representation of subjectivity. When we consider Hardy’s …
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Signifying in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' Use of African American English
… close adherence to the conventions of a sentimental novel, very few scholars have attempted to deal with a feature relatively unique to Jacobs" narrative: the use of African American English (AAE) in representing the speech of a number of her characters. Nor has any scholar exclusively …
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"""Lines of Spiritual Motion"": The Realization of American Catholic Fiction, 1845-1965"
… writers adapted formal developments, from the sentimental novel of the nineteenth century to the popular modernism of the twentieth century, to confront an American social world that sought to exclude them and to reconsider official Church doctrine. “Lines of Spiritual Motion” therefore argues …
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Women writers, religious rhetoric, and the origins of sensibility in England, 1660-1754
… these women writers had on the mid-century sentimental novel. By analyzing the complex relationships between religion and feminism, this dissertation traces a tradition of female-authored theological discourse and argues that the most powerful feminist arguments of the period arose within …