Cheryl Nixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl Nixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Nixon |
| SIGNATURE | NIXON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Mysterious Orphan
Regulating the Unstable Family
This essay examines Eliza Haywood’s interrogation of the legal structuring of the family, arguing that her fiction articulates the need to serve the “best interests” of the child well before early modern British law enacts that goal. Haywood’s amatory fiction, including Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry (1719), The Rash Resolve: Or, The Untimely Discovery (1724), and The Distress’d Orphan, or Love in a Madhouse (1726), depicts the family’s mi…
Legal and Familial Recordkeeping
Emphasizing the Romantic period's new legal recordkeeping practices, this essay traces Charlotte Smith's reliance on and critique of legal records in The Old Manor House (1793). Smith's novel connects legal structure to family structure, depicting a family misshapen by legal misrepresentation. In order to understand Smith's use of legal records, this essay focuses on the family “account” and examines late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century …
Stop a Moment at this Preface
Stop a Moment at this Preface": The Gendered Paratexts of Fielding, Barker, and Haywood Cheryl L. Nixon Sarah Fielding's didactic novel, The Governess, or Little Female Academy (1749), opens with a preface that calls attention to itself as a space worthy of the reader's consideration.1 It pleads, "Before you begin the following Sheets, I beg you will stop a Moment at this Preface, to consider with me, what is the true Use of Reading" (vii). The p…
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Stop a Moment at this Preface
Stop a Moment at this Preface": The Gendered Paratexts of Fielding, Barker, and Haywood Cheryl L. Nixon Sarah Fielding's didactic novel, The Governess, or Little Female Academy (1749), opens with a preface that calls attention to itself as a space worthy of the reader's consideration.1 It pleads, "Before you begin the following Sheets, I beg you will stop a Moment at this Preface, to consider with me, what is the true Use of Reading" (vii). The p…
Legal and Familial Recordkeeping
Emphasizing the Romantic period's new legal recordkeeping practices, this essay traces Charlotte Smith's reliance on and critique of legal records in The Old Manor House (1793). Smith's novel connects legal structure to family structure, depicting a family misshapen by legal misrepresentation. In order to understand Smith's use of legal records, this essay focuses on the family “account” and examines late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century …
Regulating the Unstable Family
This essay examines Eliza Haywood’s interrogation of the legal structuring of the family, arguing that her fiction articulates the need to serve the “best interests” of the child well before early modern British law enacts that goal. Haywood’s amatory fiction, including Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry (1719), The Rash Resolve: Or, The Untimely Discovery (1724), and The Distress’d Orphan, or Love in a Madhouse (1726), depicts the family’s mi…
The Mysterious Orphan
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