in:
Women's writing
Wallingford:
2010
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30 - 48 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Joule, Victoria |
| In: | Women's writing |
| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article presents Mary Davys's lively and larger-than-life intervention in the development of the novel. Her novelistic innovations are crucial to current debates surrounding “the rise of the novel”, and her engagement with predominantly male literary traditions and communities was part of her desire to be recognized in terms of her writing, rather than her sex. In her awareness and engagement with realism, Davys further challenges our existing concepts of early, pre-1740s novels. Davys experiments with autobiography and narrative voice with the integration of her irrepressible authorial persona, prefiguring the third-person omniscient narrator. Furthermore, her privileging of realism over romance is also part of her parody of gender stereotypes and restrictions upon women. Davys's good-humoured and spirited novels also develop and promote the rational, intelligent and “realistic” woman to demonstrate female—and by implication, her own—potential to participate in the male literary world. | |
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