Law, sensibility, and the sublime in eighteenth-century women's fiction : speaking of dread / Susan Chaplin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chaplin, Susan, 1967-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.
Subjects:	English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. Law in literature. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Law and literature > History > 18th century. Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature. Sublime, The > History > 18th century. Sublime, The, in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : speaking of dread
1. Sublime bodies and bodies of law
2. A material transcendence : the Clarissa ideal
3. Femininity and the law of romance : Charlotte Lennox's the Female Quixote
4. The discipline of sensiblity : Frances Sheridan's the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
5. Speaking of dread : Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, or the Ruin on the rock
6. Terror transcendence and control in Ann Radcliffe's the Italian and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya, or the Moor.

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