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- Title
The Authority of the Imagination in an Age of Wonder.
- Authors
CAYTON, ANDREW
- Abstract
The article discusses fiction in the British Empire and United States in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly focusing on the emergence of fictional personal histories, or novels. The author comments on notions of authority, the growing popularity and respectability of fiction, and the ideas of literary radicals. He particularly addresses the fiction of Irish author Maria Edgeworth and Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, and he also considers the ideas of English author William Godwin.
- Subjects
LITERARY criticism; FICTION; HISTORICAL fiction -- History &; criticism; AUTHORITY in literature; EDGEWORTH, Maria, 1768-1849; SCOTT, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832; GODWIN, William, 1756-1836
- Publication
Journal of the Early Republic, 2013, Vol 33, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0275-1275
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jer.2013.0009