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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | Her picture of ecclesiastical life features the other-worldly curate, Slender, the satirically-drawn rector, the Rev. Mr Plufty, and their respective daughters. ES
gives much of the story in the words of Slender's journal (always unworldly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Parker | In her paratexts EP
addresses the reader as he and (somewhat familiarly, in the style of Henry Fielding
) as thou. The preface takes a playfully insulting tone with readers. She tells them they... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Bennett | Readers first encounter the young male protagonist, Henry Dellmore, bearing the nickname of Mumps, and suffering as a pupil at a Dickensian school, under the proprietor Mr Puffardo. Once taken up by benefactors, he... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Collyer | The protagonist's name had been used by both Richardson
(in Clarissa) and Henry Fielding
(in Tom Jones) as a kind of generic appellation for a specific maid or young woman of the servant... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone
has been added to the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | Again Lennox gives her chapters titles which foretell their contents in the FieldingSarah Fielding
manner. Of the sister heroines, Harriot is beautiful and spoiled by her mother, a less forgiveable coquette than her namesake in Harriot... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrix Potter | BP
deliberately situates some of her stories in long traditions. The eponymous hero and heroine in Two Bad Mice are named after Henry Fielding
's tiny prototype Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca in the mock-heroic... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | The Cry concerns itself with burning issues for women, particularly those of intellectual conformity and of vulnerability to slander. Its authors show off their huge reading both ancient and modern, and coin new words with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alethea Lewis | Her first chapter explicitly addresses critics, and the authorial voice is often in dialogue with imagined readers—who are given a kind of life as typical young eligibles: the lovely Florinda and her favoured swain. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Ormond, a young man seeking a role-model, turns at first to Fielding
's Tom Jones, but later and more laudably to Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | Selima is a writing heroine: her poems are interspersed in the text, since as she says, As I grow sick or unhappy, I grow poetical. Holford, Margaret. Selima; or, The Village Tale. Hookham; P. Broster. 2: 73 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rachel Hunter | As its title implies, this novel sets out to flout fictional convention in its bourgeois attitudes and ineligible characters. For both preface and narrative RH
adopts the persona of the ugly Old Bachelor, Gilbert Grubthorpe... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke
's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
). Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 3: 95 |
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