An implicit confederacy: The collective literary imagination of eighteenth-century women writers

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Publication Type honors thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department English
Thesis Supervisor Barry Weller
Honors Advisor/Mentor John R. Nelson
Creator Gee, Teri Lyn
Title An implicit confederacy: The collective literary imagination of eighteenth-century women writers
Date 1991-06
Year graduated 1991
Description The body of literature on which this project focuses is a somewhat random sampling of the works of an implicit confederacy of women writers who generated a rich literary legacy from the middle of the eighteenth century and just beyond into the first decade of the nineteenth century. Drawing most heavily on Jane Austen, the inheritor of this distinctly- female tradition, I chose twelve novels to represent hundreds like them in style, imagery, and theme. To clarify transition from one work to another, the novels are identified by the following abbreviations, given here with their authors and dates of publication: (B) Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1811); (C) Cecilia, by Frances Burney (1782); (EM) Emma, by Jane Austen (1816); (EV) Eyelina, by Frances Burney (1778); (FQ) The Female Quixote, by Charlotte Lennox (1752); (MP) Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen (1814); (M) Maria: or The Wrongs of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft (1797); (MU) Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe (1794); (NA) Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (1818); (P) Persuasion, by Jane Austen (1818); (PP) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (1813); (SS) A Simple Story, by Elizabeth Inchbald (1791).
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject English literature - Women authors - History and criticism; English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Language eng
Rights Management (c) Teri Lyn Gee
Format Medium application/pdf
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nk7g6d