Sheridan, F: The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-55111-343-2
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 550 Seiten, Paperback

Reihe: Broadview Editions

The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph was hugely popular in circulating libraries in the years after its publication, and its emotional intensity was often remarked upon; Samuel Johnson wrote to Frances Sheridan, "I know not, Madam! that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much." Sheridan traces Sidney Bidulph's development in a complex epistolary novel spanning much of the protagonist's life, and explores the tension between sexual desire and prescribed female conduct.

In addition to an introduction that places the novel in the context of Sheridan's feminism and of the early novel, this edition provides material on discourses of female conduct, letters between Sheridan and Samuel Richardson, and contemporary reviews.

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Über Autor(innen)

Heidi Hutner is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Nicole Garret is a PhD candidate in English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.