It has long been recognized that women writers played a significant role in the rise of the novel. Women and the Rise of the Novel is the first systematic theoretical study of early modern women’s fiction showing how and why it helped shape the novel’s identity. While most studies of the origin of the novel begin with the eighteenth century, Donovan traces women’s literary traditions from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, focusing on the early modern period as a starting point. She examines works in Italian, French, and Spanish, as well as English, highlighting the contributions of various women writers from Christine de Pizan to Jane Austen.
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"...a significant, ambitious, and timely intervention in both feminist and historicist orthodoxies..."--Ros Ballaster, Modern Philology
"This is a work of extraordinary significance...Donovan has defined the field clearly, forthrightly, often brilliantly. All future discussion of the subject begins here."--Choice
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"This is a work of extraordinary significance...Donovan has defined the field clearly, forthrightly, often brilliantly. All future discussion of the subject begins here."--Choice
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Josephine Donovan is Professor of English at the University of Maine and lives in Portsmouth, NH. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Feminist Theory, and New England Local Color Literature.
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THE NOVEL, A GENRE THAT HAS DOMINATED Western prose fiction for more than two centuries, is a unique literary form that has its own distinguishing properties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feminist critical irony, casuistry treatises, novella forty, entretenimiento honesto, des quenouilles, feminist thesis, sentimentalist tradition, loose period, early modern women writers, novella tradition, nineties generation, inset stories, women troubadours, references follow, frame characters, frame plot, female quixote, querelle des femmes, feminist purposes, cite des dames, against romance, feminist use, frame women, novelistic discourse, standpoint theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Maria de Zayas, Delarivier Manley, Jane Barker, Natures Pictures, Margaret Cavendish, Mary Carleton, Don Quixote, Moll Flanders, New Atalantis, Sociable Letters, Jane Austen, Mary Davys, Ian Watt, The Adventures of Rivella, The Contract, Dialogic Imagination, Olinda's Adventures, The Merry Wanderer, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, The Fugitive, Charlotte Temple, Female Revenge New!
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THE NOVEL, A GENRE THAT HAS DOMINATED Western prose fiction for more than two centuries, is a unique literary form that has its own distinguishing properties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feminist critical irony, casuistry treatises, novella forty, entretenimiento honesto, des quenouilles, feminist thesis, sentimentalist tradition, loose period, early modern women writers, novella tradition, nineties generation, inset stories, women troubadours, references follow, frame characters, frame plot, female quixote, querelle des femmes, feminist purposes, cite des dames, against romance, feminist use, frame women, novelistic discourse, standpoint theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Maria de Zayas, Delarivier Manley, Jane Barker, Natures Pictures, Margaret Cavendish, Mary Carleton, Don Quixote, Moll Flanders, New Atalantis, Sociable Letters, Jane Austen, Mary Davys, Ian Watt, The Adventures of Rivella, The Contract, Dialogic Imagination, Olinda's Adventures, The Merry Wanderer, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, The Fugitive, Charlotte Temple, Female Revenge New!
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