What Has Been, A Novel by Eliza Kirkham Mathews

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-44984-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Chawton House Library: Women's Novels

What Has Been, originally published in 1801, is an affecting, lively, and accessible read for scholars and students of the long eighteenth century. This critical edition includes an extensive introduction, notes, and appendices. Eliza Kirkham Mathews’ portrait of a struggling female novelist connects and also distinguishes What Has Been from novels by now-canonical female authors of this period. Simultaneously, it provides a new vantage-point for assessing obscure or long-forgotten novels. This volume will be of great interest to teachers and scholars of the long-eighteenth century and Romantic era, and on such far-ranging topics as the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, British Romanticism, feminism, women’s literature, the gothic, and the ‘novel of purpose’ or Jacobin/anti-Jacobin novel.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sadow, Jonathan

Neiman, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Bibliography

Chronology of Eliza Kirkham Mathews

A Note on the Text

WHAT HAS BEEN, A NOVEL

Vol. I.

WHAT HAS BEEN, A NOVEL

Vol. II.

Appendix A: Excerpts from Other Works

Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews

Appendix C: Anne Jackson Mathews, from Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian (1838)

Appendix D: Virginia Woolf, Sterne Ghost (1925)

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Sadow is an Associate Professor of English and also associated with Women’s and Gender Studies at SUNY Oneonta.

Elizabeth Neiman is an Associate Professor of English and also director of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maine.