... nineteenth-century domesticity. I wish to reexamine this question and argue for Female Biography being continuous with feminist thought by reading it as a critical response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile (1763). Rousseau's restrictive ideal of female education was widely repudiated by 1790s feminist...

... of Judaism and, after one foray, never wrote on Jewish subjects again. In their mutual inability to probe Judaism, Edgeworth and Lazarus revealed key facets of the “Jewish Question” at the turn of the nineteenth century. Hampered by her own cultural barriers, like Richard Cumberland before her, and Walter...

... English women writers novel eighteenth-century fiction nineteenth-century fiction The Literary Legacy of Sarah Harriet Burney Lorna Clark Carleton University The e†orts made by scholars in recent decades...

... demonstrated that ideas about heredity “have informed medical and lay discussions concerning the choice of mari- tal partner” since the beginning of the nineteenth century.34 To a far greater extent than any of Austen’s earlier fictions, Persuasion’s characters display a preoccupation with bloodlines...

.... On blackmail’s role in nineteenth-­century fiction, see Alexander Welsh, George Eliot and Blackmail (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 1985). 12. T. B. Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783...

... and meaning. Only in the nineteenth century did the kind of corrosive secularism Molesworth describes lead to new kinds of fictions that sought to do without Providence, starting with efforts to make history itself do the work of Providence. But, of course, all this comes after the period...

... into the “exemplary social objects” we expect to locate only in novels of domestic realism, such as Pamela (269). The collection ends with part 3, “It-­Narratives in Transition,” contain- ing two essays — Lynn Festa’s “Moral Ends of Eighteenth-­ and Nineteenth- ­Century Object Narratives” and John Plotz’s...

... for granted in nineteenth- and twentieth-century political discourse. Petrus Camper was the leading Dutch anatomist and anatomical illus- trator of the mid-eighteenth century. He was among the first to mark out an “anthropology,” or more precisely Menschkunde...

..., but the nineteenth-century novel becomes a laboratory in which to explore individuals negotiating the world, with its customary, not eternal, values. The perennial issue of “how fiction portrays greatness” (197) is answered by Walter Scott and James Fennimore Cooper carefully rooting their great characters...

... nineteenth century, moved from one institution to the next, from workhouse or house of correction, to one of a number of different hospitals, to the Refuge. Sometimes, it was the poor who were calling the shots, as when Elizabeth Brewer, following acquittal at a trial at the Old Bailey, requested...

... of her family reading Robinson Crusoe aloud in the nineteenth century: They [like Crusoe] were thankful for the cask of rum, for it was their own remedy for colds and chills. . . . The deep religious feeling was their own simple belief. He read the Bible as they read it, seeking solace...

... at the turn of the nineteenth century.3 The Age of Rea- son is also the Age of War an age, then, far beyond the scope of reason. Indeed, the century looks di erent when viewed through the lens of war, as recent scholarship in both the eighteenth century and Romantic peri- ods has illustrated.4...

...) followed hard upon the heels of Shakespeare’s canonization on the British and American stage. For example, in the mid nineteenth century, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Richard III were each separately “burlesqued.”44 In her turn, Jane Austen at 200 has been transformed into horror fiction and erotica.45...

... in the more monolithic Orientalism of the nineteenth century, by which time Britain and France were building up sizable military and bureaucratic presences in India and the Middle East. The category Enlightenment Orientalism encompasses imaginative literature, not sociological treatises. Its fiction...

... of Fiction (1814) and informs us that it was reprinted throughout the nineteenth century, the standard history until Ernest Baker’s multivolume survey over a hundred years later. This is news to me, and I am glad to have it, just as I am grateful for Corman’s presentation of the exceedingly...

... change over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the 1720s, Giam- battista Tiepolo portrayed her as an Amazonian military leader standing on an elevated platform addressing her armed forces, and in a similar fash- ion, Robert Wood in Ruins of Palmyra indicates that her beauty...

... paragraph. Sherbo’s note reads as follows: “Read ‘to dream.’ See the 1825 Oxford Works where Wallesby quotes two lines of Greek from ‘Anac.8.’ These are actually the concluding lines of a late imitation of Anacreon, not recognized as such until well into the nineteenth century. This spurious eighth...

... Havens's Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel is the first extensive study of the collaborative nature of authorship and the practice of revision in mid-to-late eighteenth-century through early nineteenth-century English novels. While scholars have often envisioned the “novelist as a powerful, singular...

... influential in the early nineteenth century, critical opinion, “once the province of mixed gatherings of the like-minded (often pre- sided over by an exceptionally brilliant woman, such as Elizabeth Montagu, the ‘queen’ of the bluestockings in London, or Seward in Lichfield) became profes- sionalized...

... in the early years of the nineteenth century. For Austen, Edgeworth, and other novelists, home comes to signify boredom and stultification: the home that Radcliffe’s heroines long to reach is the same home that Catherine Morland longs to escape. Yet at the same time, home is naturalized...