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Beschreibung

Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility.

Susan Carlile’s biography places Lennox in the context of intellectual and cultural history and focuses on her role as a central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England. Lennox participated in the most important literary and social discussions of her time, including debates concerning female authorship, the elevation of Shakespeare to national poet, and the role of periodicals as didactic texts for an increasingly literate population. Lennox also contributed to making Greek drama available for English-language audiences and pioneered the serialization of novels in magazines. Carlile’s work is the first biographical treatment to consider a new cache of correspondence released in the 1970s and reveals how Lennox was part of an ambitious and progressive literary and social movement.

Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility.

Susan Carlile’s biography places Lennox in the context of intellectual and cultural history and focuses on her role as a central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England. Lennox participated in the most important literary and social discussions of her time, including debates concerning female authorship, the elevation of Shakespeare to national poet, and the role of periodicals as didactic texts for an increasingly literate population. Lennox also contributed to making Greek drama available for English-language audiences and pioneered the serialization of novels in magazines. Carlile’s work is the first biographical treatment to consider a new cache of correspondence released in the 1970s and reveals how Lennox was part of an ambitious and progressive literary and social movement.

Über den Autor
Susan Carlile is a professor in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach. She has published on the literary marketplace of the 1750s and on the works of numerous English authors in the long eighteenth-century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction

The American

1. New World Thinking

2. An English Sappho

3. Making a Trade of Her Wit

4. Uniting the Laudable Affections of the Mind

The Professional

5. Debating "Genius"

6. Prospering in a Patronizing Profession

7. "The Same Darling End...By Different Means"

8. Recasting a Career

The Celebrity

9. "The Law of Custom"...or of "Fools"?

10. "Work Upon That Now!"

11. Friendship, Marriage, and Motherhood

12. "A Pen that Conferred Immortality"

Lennox’s Afterlife

Notes

Publications, Editions, and Reprints

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781442626232
ISBN-10: 1442626232
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Carlile, Susan
Hersteller: University of Toronto Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 228 x 153 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Susan Carlile
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2018
Gewicht: 0,784 kg
Artikel-ID: 108756541