Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, and Their Sisters

jane Austen And Mary Shelley And Their Sisters Is An Unprecedented Work That Provides An In-depth Analysis Of The Work Of Women Novelists From The Romantic Age, A Period That Has Long Been Exclusively Designated As The Province Of Canonized Male Poets. Although There Are Many Volumes On The Works Of Austen And Shelley, This Collection Is The First To Consider These Writers And Others In The Wider Context Of English Fiction By Women During The 1780s To 1830s. Collectively, The Authors Examine The Works Of Nearly Fifteen Women Novelists Of The Romantic Period Whose Works Encompass The Prevailing Social And Political Realities Of The Time. They Demonstrate That Women Writers Were Not Following A Specific Formula To Produce Their Creative Works But Were Instead Responding To An Insatiable Market For Their Imaginative And Infinitely Varied Wares. A Must-read For Scholars Of Women's Studies As Well As 19th Century British Literature, Jane Austen And Mary Shelley And Their Sisters Is Sure To Be An Important Resource For Years To Come. author Biography: Laura Dabundo Is Professor Of English At Kennesaw State University. Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters Contents Introduction Responding to the French Revolution: Williams’s Julia and Burney’s The Wanderer Having Her Cake and Eating, Too: Ambivalence, Popularity, and the Psychosocial Implications of Ann Radcliffe’s Fiction The Preceptor as Fiend: Radcliffe’s Psychology of the Gothic The Treatment of Women in the Novels of Charlotte Turner Smith Jane Austen’s Opacities Susan Ferrier’s Allusions: Comedy, Morality, and the Presence of Milton The Limits of Liberal Feminism in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda A Reading of Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Ideological Affinities The Alienation of Family in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Mary Shelley, Shakespeare, and the Romantic Theatre Mary Shelley and the Romance of Science The Uses of Adventure: The Moral and Evangelical Robinsonnades of Agnes Strickland, Barbara Hofland, and Ann Fraser Tytler Representative Chronology of English Novels by Women of the Romantic Period Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors