Heroines Of Fiction. William Dean Howells

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      Heroines Of Fiction

      WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

      

      

      

       Heroines of Fiction, W. D. Howells

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849657710

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

       [email protected]

      

      

      

      

      CONTENTS:

       SOME NINETEENTH-CENTURY HEROINES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 1

       FRANCES BURNEY'S EVELINA.. 9

       TWO HEROINES OF MARIA EDGEWORTH'S. 16

       JANE AUSTEN'S ELIZABETH BENNET.. 25

       JANE AUSTEN'S ANNE ELIOT AND CATHARINE MORLAND... 33

       JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA WOODHOUSE, MARIANNE DASHWOOD, AND FANNY PRICE 43

       HEROINES OF MISS FERRIER, MRS. OPIE, AND MRS. RADCLIFFE.. 52

       SCOTT'S REBECCA AND ROWENA, AND LUCY ASHTON... 60

       SCOTT'S JEANIE DEANS AND COOPER'S LACK OF HEROINES. 68

       A HEROINE OF BULWER'S. 75

       THE EARLIER HEROINES OF CHARLES DICKENS. 83

       HEROINES OF CHARLES DICKENS'S MIDDLE PERIOD... 90

       DICKENS'S LATER HEROINES. 98

       HAWTHORNE'S HESTER PRYNNE.. 106

       HAWTHORNE'S ZENOBIA AND PRISCILLA, AND MIRIAM AND HILDA 115

       THACKERAY'S BAD HEROINES. 125

       THACKERAY'S GOOD HEROINES. 133

       THACKERAY'S ETHEL NEWCOME AND CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S JANE EYRE 141

       THE TWO CATHARINES OF EMILY BRONTE.. 150

       CHARLES KINGSLEY'S HYPATIA.. 158

       THE NATURE OF CHARLES READE'S HEROINES. 166

       VARIATIONS OF READE'S TYPE OF HEROINES. 175

       GEORGE ELIOT'S MAGGIE TULLIVER AND HETTY SORREL. 185

       GEORGE ELIOT'S ROSAMOND VINCY AND DOROTHEA BROOKE 198

       GEORGE ELIOT'S GWENDOLEN HARLETH AND JANET DEMPSTER 207

       ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S LILY DALE.. 217

       ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S LUCY ROBARTS AND GRISELDA GRANTLY 227

       ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S MRS. PROUDIE.. 236

       THE HEROINE OF "THE INITIALS". 246

       THE HEROINE OF " KATE BEAUMONT". 255

       MR. JAMES'S DAISY MILLER.. 263

       MR. THOMAS HARDY'S HEROINES. 272

       MR. THOMAS HARDY'S BATHSHEBA EVERDENE AND PAULA POWER 282

       WILLIAM BLACK'S GERTRUDE WHITE.. 294

       MR. BRET HARTE'S MIGGLES, AND MR. T. B. ALDRICH'S MARJORIE DAW 303

       MR. G. W. CABLE'S AURORA AND CLOTILDE NANCANOU.. 309

       MR. H. B. FULLER'S JANE MARSHALL AND MISS M. E. WILKINS'S JANE FIELD 316

       MRS. HUMPHRY WARD'S HEROINES. 326

      SOME NINETEENTH-CENTURY HEROINES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

      IN proposing to confine these studies to the nineteenth-century heroines of Anglo-Saxon fiction, I find myself confronted by a certain question, which I should like to share with the reader.

      A day, a month, a year, these are natural divisions of time, and must be respected as such; but a century, like a week or a fortnight, is a mere convention of the chronologers, and need not be taken very literally in its claim to be exactly a hundred years long. As to its qualities and characteristics, it had much better not be taken so; and in a study like the present one is by no means bound to date the heroines of nineteenth-century fiction from the close of the eighteenth century, even if the whole world were agreed just when that was. In fact, since the heroines of fiction are of a race so mixed that there is no finding out just where they came from, there is some reason why a study of nineteenth-century heroines should go back to their greatest-grandmothers m the Byzantine romances, or even beyond these, to the yet elder Greek lineages in the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." But there is still more reason why it should not do anything of the sort. We may amuse ourselves, if we choose, in tracing resemblances and origins; but, after all, the heroines of English and American fiction are of easily distinguishable types, and their evolution in their native Anglo-Saxon environment has been, in no very great lapse of time, singularly uninfluenced from without. They have been responsive at different moments to this ideal and to that, but


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