Novel Cleopatras : : Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688–1785 / / Nicole Horejsi.
Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture. Novel Cleopatras also rewrites the essential role of women writers in history who were...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 10 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART 1. Demythologizing Dido: Epic and Romance
- 1. “Pulcherrima Dido”: Jane Barker and the Epic of Exile
- 2. “What Is There of a Woman Worth Relating?” Revising the Aeneid in Henry Fielding’s Amelia
- PART 2. Mythologizing Cleopatra: Romance Historiography and the Queens of Egypt
- 3. “A Pattern to Ensuing Ages”: Reinventing Historical Practice in Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote
- 4. Performing Augustan History in Sarah Fielding’s Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
- 5. Whose “Wild and Extravagant Stories”? Clara Reeve’s The Progress of Romance and The History of Charoba, Queen of Ægypt
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index