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Howard, James Joseph.

The English novel's cradle: The theatre and the women novelists of the long eighteenth century.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The English novel's cradle: The theatre and the women novelists of the long eighteenth century.
Author:	Howard, James Joseph.
Description:	276 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1307.
Notes:	Adviser: George E. Haggerty.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3398193
ISBN:	9781109710984

The English novel's cradle: The theatre and the women novelists of the long eighteenth century.
Howard, James Joseph.

The English novel's cradle: The theatre and the women novelists of the long eighteenth century. - 276 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1307.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2010.

This dissertation examines the relationship between the drama and the novel in the "Long" Eighteenth Century, with the focus on the women who wrote in both genres during this period and on the impact of female playwriting upon the evolution and refinement of the emerging English novel. Ten such writers are the subject of this study, starting with Aphra Behn and concluding with Frances Burney. The uneasy relationship women had with the theatre of the period has been well documented, and conventional wisdom has been that as the eighteenth century progressed, the novel became the preferred (or perhaps culturally imposed) literary venue for most female authors. However, my research reveals the succession of women writers who began their careers as dramatists, or wrote for the theatre soon after attempting other genres, continued unbroken throughout the eighteenth century. Most of these writers persisted in writing plays, even after they achieved success in fiction. It is true the production of novels, largely written by and for women, increased exponentially; but in a revised "feminist" version of the "rise of the novel" narrative, the dramatists in this study, such as Eliza Haywood, figure prominently in the development of the new genre, alongside their iconic male counterparts.

ISBN: 9781109710984Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Modern.

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