Restricted Political Ability: How Nineteenth-Century British Women Novelists Worked to Influence Their Societies

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dc.contributor.advisorHargrave, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorWubben, Claire
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity Scholars.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-20T19:02:03Z
dc.date.available2022-05-20T19:02:03Z
dc.date.copyright2022-05-05
dc.date.issued2022-05-20
dc.description.abstractThere is a pattern in nineteenth-century Britain that only exists within novels written by women. Throughout the century, the topical scopes women writers chose from grow smaller as the popularity of the novel increases. The topical scopes shrink from conversations encompassing Britain's international empire, to the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the working class, to the importance of morality in the home, each topic is approached by the authors with the same intent of including women in the overarching socio-political conversation of the day. This thesis seeks to fill in the nineteenth-century women's political perspective through a discussion of the works and writing styles by Frances Burney, Mary Shelley, the anonymous author of The Woman of Colour, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and Charlotte Yonge. Their works are put in conversation with the politics surrounding their publication, and it is possible to see how they impacted their contemporary societies.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2104/11892
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectWomen novelists.en_US
dc.subjectBritish colonialism.en_US
dc.subjectPolitics in novels.en_US
dc.subject1800s Great Britain.en_US
dc.subjectWomen's rights in Great Britain.en_US
dc.subjectRise of the novel.en_US
dc.subjectInfluence of the novel.en_US
dc.subjectVictorian Era Great Britain.en_US
dc.subjectRomantic Era Great Britain.en_US
dc.subjectMary Shelley.en_US
dc.subjectGeorge Eliot.en_US
dc.subjectIndustrial Revolution.en_US
dc.subjectAngel in the House.en_US
dc.subjectCharlotte Bronte.en_US
dc.subjectCharlotte Yonge.en_US
dc.subjectFrances Burney.en_US
dc.subjectThe Woman of Colour.en_US
dc.subjectPolitics of the novel.en_US
dc.subjectWomen's involvement in politics.en_US
dc.subjectThe other.en_US
dc.titleRestricted Political Ability: How Nineteenth-Century British Women Novelists Worked to Influence Their Societiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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