Seeing Suffering In Women's Literature Of The Romantic Era 0754654915, 9780754654919

Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows that

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 Illness
1 Melancholia and the Poetics of Visibility: Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets
2 Contagion, Sympathy, Invisibility: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Part 2 Healing
3 The Journey to Heal Melancholia: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters from Norway
4 Scientific Botany as Therapy in Charlotte Smith’s Literature
5 Invisibility and the History of Trauma: Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy
Part 3 Social Justice
6 Seeing Poverty: Smith’s Rural Walks and Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories as Fictional Ethnography
7 Unsentimental Seeing: Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman and Didactic Children’s Literature
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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SEEING SUFFERING IN WOMEN’S LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC ERA

For Emma

Seeing Suffering in Women’s Literature of the Romantic Era

ELIZABETH A. DOLAN Lehigh University, USA

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