Shared more. Cited more. Safe forever.
    • advanced search
    • submit works
    • about
    • help
    • contact us
    • login
    View Item 
    •   MOspace Home
    • University of Missouri-Columbia
    • Graduate School - Theses and Dissertations (MU)
    • Theses and Dissertations (MU)
    • Dissertations (MU)
    • 2016 Dissertations (MU)
    • 2016 MU dissertations - Access restricted to UM
    • View Item
    •   MOspace Home
    • University of Missouri-Columbia
    • Graduate School - Theses and Dissertations (MU)
    • Theses and Dissertations (MU)
    • Dissertations (MU)
    • 2016 Dissertations (MU)
    • 2016 MU dissertations - Access restricted to UM
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
    advanced searchsubmit worksabouthelpcontact us

    Browse

    All of MOspaceCommunities & CollectionsDate IssuedAuthor/ContributorTitleSubjectIdentifierThesis DepartmentThesis AdvisorThesis SemesterThis CollectionDate IssuedAuthor/ContributorTitleSubjectIdentifierThesis DepartmentThesis AdvisorThesis Semester

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular AuthorsStatistics by Referrer

    British women novelists and the review periodical, 1790-1820

    Peiser, Megan
    View/Open
    [PDF] research.pdf (2.451Mb)
    [PDF] public.pdf (1.909Kb)
    Date
    2016
    Format
    Thesis
    Metadata
    [+] Show full item record
    Abstract
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Between 1790 and 1820, women published more novels than men -- unlike any period before or after. It is remarkable that women assumed dominant authorship of the novel just as it began to gain attention as a literary genre, especially considering the cultural status of women in eighteenth-century Britain. My dissertation combines qualitative and quantitative methodology to uncover the contemporary critical response to this unique moment in literary history. Literary historians continually trivialize the quality of these novels by women, and ignore contemporaneous critical conversation recognizing women's dominance of novel writing during this period. Using a database that I have built that catalogs the reviews of novels from The Critical Review and The Monthly Review, and close readings of reviews and prefaces, I trace Reviews' and writers' conversation about the female authorship of the novel. My project identifies the Reviews' role in shaping our modern literary canon, its influence on germinal novelists like Jane Austen, and provides data on the Reviews' lasting influence on the novel as a genre.
    URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/10355/62539
    Degree
    Ph. D.
    Thesis Department
    English (MU)
    Rights
    Access is limited to the campuses of the University of Missouri.
    Collections
    • 2016 MU dissertations - Access restricted to UM
    • English electronic theses and dissertations (MU)

    Send Feedback
    hosted by University of Missouri Library Systems
     

     


    Send Feedback
    hosted by University of Missouri Library Systems