Optional Critical Readings

I left critical readings off the syllabus for the last two novels, expecting that you would be too busy at this moment and would welcome a slight break in the reading load. However, I have been asked to post some readings that you can choose to do and to write about for your critical responses.

So, here is an optional critical reading for A Simple Story.

Haggerty, George E.: Female abjection in Inchbald’s A Simple Story.
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 36:3 1996

and another for Persuasion
“‘Unbecoming Conjunctions’: Mourning the Loss of Landscape and Love in Persuasion”
by Jill Heydt-Stevenson, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8:1 (October 1995)