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• W1488656411 abstract "Charlotte Lennox published Euphemia in 1790, forty years after she published The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself Her final novel, like her first, is set partially in colonial America, probably circa 1740. As Lennox's early twentieth-century biographer, Miriam Rossiter Small, suggests, It is in American scenes of Harriot Stuart and Euphemia that find something original Mrs. Lennox and interesting historically and biographically. The accurate simple accounts of a passage up Hudson and of life in fort at Albany occasional excursions into surrounding country are most valuable and unusual portions of these novels. (152) But where in Harriot Stuart description of North American countryside and its inhabitants is minimal, in Euphemia Lennox paints a vivid and detailed picture of England's colony and people living there. What accounts for this increased attention to detail and description in her final novel? Philippe Sejourne suggests it is due to growing interest among English readers in descriptions of primitive Indians and of adventures in wilderness (45). Destitute in her old age, and therefore probably writing profit at least somewhat in mind, Lennox was indeed likely to be sensitive to demands of London literary marketplace, and critics did respond favorably to her choices. The Critical Review for 1790 comments at length on Euphemia because we think it uncommon in its construction, and interesting from some of its descriptions; accounts of a country which, though long in our possession, has scarcely ever been described in a picturesque narrative (81); and London Review judges that the picturesque beauties of province of New York, manners and customs of its inhabitants, together vagrant life of savages, are described, in course of this correspondence, great beauty and effect (122). (1) The picturesque quality of Euphemia shows us that despite novel's mid-eighteenth-century setting, Lennox was alive to tendencies of her own time (Small 148), since last few decades of eighteenth century saw development of picturesque aesthetic in works of Gilpin and Price, among others. In addition, Lennox's use of epistolary form in novel, with an ingenuity that produces a very pleasing effect (London Review 121), tapped into what had by end of eighteenth century become a very popular novelistic technique. (2) These contemporary responses to Lennox's novel suggest that her late-eighteenth-century readers, used to seeing landscape around them by means of [picturesque] conventions and receptive to finding picturesque in novels they read as well (Ross 1)--many of which used epistolary technique--were interested in Lennox's exploration of how aesthetic perspective and novelistic form meet to produce a particular valuation of American landscape, of both those sights one saw as one traveled and those sights one traveled in order to see. Lennox's valuation is complex, and, while overtly conservative, it manages, via particular vehicles she uses to explore American landscape, to question underlying assumptions of her readers. For instance, she gives aesthetic eye to a married Englishwoman who is a traveller in America against her will and whose position vis-a-vis colonized landscape and peoples of America is therefore far closer than her male countryman's; this affects how picturesque functions in novel in that Lennox's use of woman's perspective changes picturesque and thereby denies imperialistic England one of its colonizing tools. In addition, Lennox's use of epistolary technique endows her heroine a voice to interpret and communicate what she sees to another woman. Both Euphemia Neville and Maria Harley, her correspondent, under English social system in which they had been brought up, had limited power for self-expression; while their epistolary correspondence is private and confined for most part to domestic and romantic, Lennox's use of it has political implications: in this novel, epistolarity challenges accepted cultural and political practices that have silenced women (see Beebee 105, 119). …" @default.
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• W1488656411 title "Seeing Colonial America and Writing Home about It: Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia, Epistolarity, and the Feminine Picturesque" @default.
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