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Novel Cleopatras : Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688–1785 / Nicole Horejsi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 10 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442667396
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.93351 23
LOC classification:
  • PN57.C55
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 typically underestimated as active participants of neoclassical culture, often excluded from the same schools that taught their brothers Greek and Latin. However, as author Nicole Horejsi reveals, a number of exceptional middle-class women were actually serious students of the classics. In order to dismiss the idea that women were completely marginalized as neoclassical writers, Horejsi takes up the character of Dido from ancient Greek mythology and her real-life counterpart Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. Together, the legendary Dido and historical Cleopatra serve as figures for the conflation of myth and history. Horejsi contends that turning to the doomed queens who haunted the Roman imagination enabled eighteenth-century novelists to seize the productive overlap among the categories of history, romance, the novel, and even the epic.
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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

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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 typically underestimated as active participants of neoclassical culture, often excluded from the same schools that taught their brothers Greek and Latin. However, as author Nicole Horejsi reveals, a number of exceptional middle-class women were actually serious students of the classics. In order to dismiss the idea that women were completely marginalized as neoclassical writers, Horejsi takes up the character of Dido from ancient Greek mythology and her real-life counterpart Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. Together, the legendary Dido and historical Cleopatra serve as figures for the conflation of myth and history. Horejsi contends that turning to the doomed queens who haunted the Roman imagination enabled eighteenth-century novelists to seize the productive overlap among the categories of history, romance, the novel, and even the epic.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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