Novel Histories : British Women Writing History, 1760-1830, Kasmer, Lisa<-

Novel HistoriesBritish Women Writing History, 1760-1830\nAuthor(s): Lisa Kasmer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Associated University Presses, United States\nImprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press\nISBN-13: 9781611476255, 978-1611476255\nSynopsis\nNovel Histories: British Women Writing History, [tel] argues that British womens history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of womens writing. At a time when womens participation in the republic of letters was both celebrated and reviled, these authors took cues from developments that revolutionized British history writing to push the limits of narrated history to respond to contemporary national politics. Through an examination of the conventions of historical and literary genres; historiography during the period; and the gendering of civic and literary roles, this study shows not only a social, political, and literary lineage amo.