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Book SynopsisTrade Review. . .a helpful chronology of British women's novels of the period. . . * CHOICE *
. . .a helpful chronology of British women's novels of the period. . . * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Responding to the French Revolution: William's Julia and Burney's The Wanderer Chapter 3 Having Her Cake and Eating, Too: Ambivalence, Popularity, and the Psychosocial Implications of Ann Radcliffe's Fiction Chapter 4 The Preceptor as Fiend: Radcliffe's Psychology of the Gothic Chapter 5 The Treatment of Women in the Novels of Charlotte Turner Smith Chapter 6 Jane Austen's Opacities Chapter 7 Susan Ferrier's Allusions: Comedy, Morality, and the Presence of Milton Chapter 8 The Limits of Liberal Feminism in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda Chapter 9 A Reading of Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent Chapter 10 Mary Wollestonecraft and Mary Shelley: Ideological Affinities Chapter 11 The Alienation of Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Chapter 12 Mary Shelley, Shakespeare, and the Romantic Theatre Chapter 13 Mary Shelley and the Romance of Science Chapter 14 The Uses of Adventure: The Moral and Evangelical Robinsonnades of Agnes Strickland, Barbara Hofland and Ann Fraser Tytler Chapter 15 Representative Chronology of English Novels by Women of the Romantic Period Chapter 16 Selected Bibliography Chapter 17 Index
