Seeing suffering in women's literature of the Romantic era / Elizabeth A. Dolan.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2008], ©2008.

viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Melancholia and the poetics of visibility : Charlotte Smith's Elegiac sonnets -- Contagion, sympathy, invisibility : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- The journey to heal melancholia : Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway -- Scientific botany as therapy in Charlotte Smith's literature -- Invisibility and the history of trauma : Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy -- Seeing poverty : Smith's Rural walks and Wollstonecraft's Original stories as fictional ethnography -- Unsentimental seeing : Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman and didactic children's literature.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.