Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction: Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen
1st Edition
By Emily Hodgson Anderson
October 11, 2011
This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen ...
The Female Reader in the English Novel: From Burney to Austen
1st Edition
By Joe Bray
July 14, 2010
This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in particular as passive and impressionable; liable to identify dangerously with the world of her reading. This study shows that ...
Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His Reliabilist Response
1st Edition
By Philip De Bary, Philip de Bary
January 25, 2002
This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his predecessors. Turning to the positive part of Reid's programme, the author then develops a fresh ...