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| Named Person: | Charlotte Smith; Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth A Dolan |
| ISBN: | 9780754654919 0754654915 |
| OCLC Number: | 176648866 |
| Description: | viii, 249 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Melancholia and the poetics of visibility : Charlotte Smith's Elegiac sonnets -- Contagion, sympathy, invisibility : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- The journey to heal melancholia : Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway -- Scientific botany as therapy in Charlotte Smith's literature -- Invisibility and the history of trauma : Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy -- Seeing poverty : Smith's Rural walks and Wollstonecraft's Original stories as fictional ethnography -- Unsentimental seeing : Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman and didactic children's literature. |
| Responsibility: | Elizabeth A. Dolan. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, this book shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley experimented with aesthetic and scientific visual methods in order to expose the social structures underlying suffering.
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- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Smith, Charlotte, -- 1749-1806 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Suffering in literature.
- Literature and medicine.
- Vision in literature.
- Romanticism -- Great Britain.
- Frauenliteratur.
- Leid <Motiv>
- Romantik.
- Englisch.
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