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Availability:In StockContributor:Frances Brooke, Paula R. Backscheider, Hope D. CottonSeries:Eighteenth-Century Novels by WomenPublish date:1996-12-12Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813108810ISBN-10:813108810UPC:9780813108810Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Women Authors, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.02 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.86Product ID:SCA2C71NHA
" Written for the audience it portrays, The Excursion introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's ""gentle"" society and its glittering pastimes. For her novel's overarching plot structure, Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney. But instead of concentrating on Maria's romantic adventures, she experiments with unusual treatments of subplots and unconventional characters. This is one of the few portraits of a woma
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813108810ISBN-10:813108810UPC:9780813108810Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Women Authors, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.02 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.86Product ID:SCA2C71NHA
Paula R. Backsheider is Pepperell-Philpott Eminent Scholar in English at Auburn University and the author of numerous books, including Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England.
Hope D. Cotton is a doctoral student in English at Auburn University.
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