TY  - BOOK
AU  - Volz,Jessica A.
TI  - Visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney
T2  - Anthem nineteenth-century series
SN  - 9781783086610 (ebook)
AV  - PR858.W6 V65 2017
U1  - 823/.7099287 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Anthem Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Visual perception in literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Women and literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018)
N2  - 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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