Seeing suffering in women's literature of the Romantic era

Description:

Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth Dolan shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith and Mary Shelley experimented with aesthetic and scientific visual methods in order to expose the social structures underlying suffering.

subjects: English literature,  History and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  Romanticism,  Women authors,  Literature and medicine,  Vision in literature,  Suffering in literature,  Suffering,  Literature, women authors,  Literature, modern, history and criticism, 19th century,  Women in literature,  Écrits de femmes anglais,  Histoire et critique,  Littérature anglaise,  Littérature et médecine,  Romantisme,  Souffrance dans la littérature,  Vision dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Medicine in Literature,  History,  Psychological Stress

People: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797),  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851),  Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century,  18th century