Visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney / Jessica A. Volz.
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TextSeries: Anthem nineteenth century studiesPublisher: London : Anthem Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781783086610 (ebook)Subject(s): English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Visual perception in literature | Sex role in literature | Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 823/.7099287 LOC classification: PR858.W6 | V65 2017Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney argues that the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gaze in women's novels published in Britain between 1778 and 1815 is more significant than scholars have previously acknowledged. The book's innovative survey of the oeuvres of four culturally representative women novelists of the period spanning the Anglo-French War and the Battle of Waterloo reveals the importance of visuality - the continuum linking visual and verbal communication. It provided women novelists with a methodology capable of circumventing the cultural strictures on female expression in a way that concealed resistance within the limits of language. In contexts dominated by 'frustrated utterance', penetrating gazes and the perpetual threat of misinterpretation, Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney used references to the visible and the invisible to comment on emotions, socio-economic conditions and patriarchal abuses. Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney offers new insights into verbal economy and the gender politics of the era by reassessing expression and perception from a uniquely telling point of view.
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Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney argues that the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gaze in women's novels published in Britain between 1778 and 1815 is more significant than scholars have previously acknowledged. The book's innovative survey of the oeuvres of four culturally representative women novelists of the period spanning the Anglo-French War and the Battle of Waterloo reveals the importance of visuality - the continuum linking visual and verbal communication. It provided women novelists with a methodology capable of circumventing the cultural strictures on female expression in a way that concealed resistance within the limits of language. In contexts dominated by 'frustrated utterance', penetrating gazes and the perpetual threat of misinterpretation, Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney used references to the visible and the invisible to comment on emotions, socio-economic conditions and patriarchal abuses. Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney offers new insights into verbal economy and the gender politics of the era by reassessing expression and perception from a uniquely telling point of view.
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