The Cry (eBook)

A New Dramatic Fable

Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (Autoren)

Carolyn Woodward (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
406 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7412-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Before Jane Austen's novels explored heroines in English society, writers Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier dared to provide commentary on gender and education through self-conscious narratives. Published in 1754 in five parts and divided into three volumes, The Cry stands as one of the most distinctive and intriguing works by women during the florescence of their writing in eighteenth-century England.Strikingly experimentalmixing fiction and philosophy, drama and exposition, satire and irony, and singular and choral voicesThe Cry revolves around a main character, Portia, who tells a series of stories to an audience that includes Una, the allegorical representation of truth, and "e;The Cry"e; itself, a collection of characters who serve as a kind of Greek chorus. A story about the story-making female subject, the novel serves as a catalyst to convey that women are capable of doing all of the things that men can dodiscuss ethics, learn, and think rationallyand should be allowed to do these things publically. Throughout, editor Carolyn Woodward offers essential historical and editorial context to the work, demonstrating that this novel continues to facilitate discussions about women and public life.

Autor

Sarah Fielding (1710–1768) was an English author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or Little Female Academy (1749), the first novel in English aimed specifically at children. Earlier she had success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple (1744). Jane Collier (1714–1755) was an English novelist most famous for her book An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753). She also collaborated with Sarah Fielding on her only other surviving work, The Cry (1754). Carolyn Woodward is Associate Professor of English and Director of British and Irish Literary Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Inhalt

Note on the Text
Introduction to the 2018 Edition
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
• Reihe/Serie: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
• Reihe/Serie: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 18th century British literature • early feminist writers • Feminist literature • feminist novels • gender in fiction • History of Literature • Philosophical literature • strong female characters • Women and the arts • women's novels
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7412-0 / 0813174120
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7412-9 / 9780813174129