ABSTRACT
Mary Charlton's 1799 Rosella, or Modern Occurrences is a fascinating novel that brokers between conservative and feminist ideas, humour and horror, and indulgence in and ridicule of sentimental tropes. Written in imitation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1615) and Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752), Rosella belongs to a large class of comic works in which female readers and novelists are satirized. This edition not only addresses the gap in knowledge about Charlton’s work, but will be of particular interest to scholars working on the Romantic literary market of the 1790s, especially Minerva Press publications. The book engages with many of the themes explored in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, from women’s writing and female education to popular fiction and sensibility. Accompanied by a new introduction by Professor Natalie Neill, this title will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |370 pages
Rosella
part |93 pages
Volume I
chapter Chapter XI|10 pages
Rage for Accomplishments – Soft Manners in a Lady of Fashion Critically Illustrated
part |92 pages
Volume II
chapter Chapter I|9 pages
Rage for Casemented Cottages – for Wandering in Wilds Obscure – a Mysterious Stranger
chapter Chapter VI|8 pages
Rage for Sublime Evasions 207 – the Mysterious Disappearance of Two Heroines
part |90 pages
Volume III
chapter Chapter V|8 pages
Mama Tears Away the Mysterious Veil Thrown Aver the Affinity Between Herself and Her Daughter
chapter Chapter VI|10 pages
The Elegance of the Cottage Sullied by Ignorant Rusticity – a Captive Hero Reduced to Despair
part |92 pages
Volume IV