| Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind Contributor(s): Carlile, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442626232 ISBN-13: 9781442626232 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $51.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2018295947 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.75 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility. Susan Carlile's biography places Lennox in the context of intellectual and cultural history and focuses on her role as a central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England. Lennox participated in the most important literary and social discussions of her time, including debates concerning female authorship, the elevation of Shakespeare to national poet, and the role of periodicals as didactic texts for an increasingly literate population. Lennox also contributed to making Greek drama available for English-language audiences and pioneered the serialization of novels in magazines. Carlile's work is the first biographical treatment to consider a new cache of correspondence released in the 1970s and reveals how Lennox was part of an ambitious and progressive literary and social movement. |
Contributor Bio(s): Carlile, Susan: - Susan Carlile is a professor in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach. She has published on the literary marketplace of the 1750s and on the works of numerous English authors in the long eighteenth-century. |