Search for dissertations about: "Anna Morris"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Anna Morris.

2. 1. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s

   Author : Anna Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; West-Jane; Smith-Charlotte; Bennett-Anna-Maria; novel; eighteenth-century; circulating-library; review; parody; irony; free-indirect-discourse; innovation; common-reader; gossip; Quixote; education; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This thesis situates the innovations of three English novels from the 1790s by three relatively unknown women writers, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Maria Bennett, against the background of a literary climate characterised by highly conventional forms of fiction in either sentimental or satiric modes. Their innovations consisted in the fashioning of parodic forms that would balance emotionality with irony. READ MORE