Women's Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770-1820 Dangerous Occupations /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Morrissey, Joseph (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Fiction.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Motion pictures and television.; Contemporary Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Screen Studies.

This book examines women's domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level. By examining the momentary thought and feeling processes that informed the playing of a harp, the stitching of a dress, or the reading of a gothic novel, the book shifts the focus fr...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Needlework in Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
• 3. Musical Accomplishment in Frances Burney's The Wanderer
• 4. Reading Novels in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
• 5. Sensibility in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde
• 6. Conclusion.