Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- 1 ‘Launched Upon the Sea of Moral and Political Inquiry’: The Ethical Experiments of the Romantic Novel
- 2 Bad Marriages, Bad Novels: The ‘Philosophical Romance’
- 3 Enlightenment or Illumination: The Spectre of Conspiracy in Gothic Fictions of the 1790s
- 4 Burney's Conservatism: Masculine Value and ‘the Ingenuous Cecilia’
- 5 ‘All Agog to Find Her Out’: Compulsory Narration in The Wanderer
- 6 A Select Collection: Barbauld, Scott, and the Rise of the (Reprinted) Novel
- 7 Austen, Empire and Moral Virtue
- 8 Fanny Price's British Museum: Empire, Genre, and Memory in Mansfield Park
- 9 Between the Lines: Poetry, Persuasion, and the Feelings of the Past
- 10 Scholarly Revivals: Gothic Fiction, Secret History, and Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- 11 Sympathy, Physiognomy, and Scottish Romantic Fiction
- Works Cited
- Index
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- 1 ‘Launched Upon the Sea of Moral and Political Inquiry’: The Ethical Experiments of the Romantic Novel
- 2 Bad Marriages, Bad Novels: The ‘Philosophical Romance’
- 3 Enlightenment or Illumination: The Spectre of Conspiracy in Gothic Fictions of the 1790s
- 4 Burney's Conservatism: Masculine Value and ‘the Ingenuous Cecilia’
- 5 ‘All Agog to Find Her Out’: Compulsory Narration in The Wanderer
- 6 A Select Collection: Barbauld, Scott, and the Rise of the (Reprinted) Novel
- 7 Austen, Empire and Moral Virtue
- 8 Fanny Price's British Museum: Empire, Genre, and Memory in Mansfield Park
- 9 Between the Lines: Poetry, Persuasion, and the Feelings of the Past
- 10 Scholarly Revivals: Gothic Fiction, Secret History, and Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- 11 Sympathy, Physiognomy, and Scottish Romantic Fiction
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Recognizing the Romantic NovelNew Histories of British Fiction, 1780-1830, pp. i - viPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2010