Excellence of Falsehood

Autorentext

Deborah Ross is associate professor of English at Hawaii Pacific University.

Klappentext

The texts discussed here illustrate a process of development both in the novel and in the conditions of women's lives. Tensions between romance and realism enabled women writers to question official versions of reality and to measure life against a romance ideal.

Zusammenfassung
This clergyman's remarks - repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century - are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels.