There are many factors that contributed to the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gaze in women\'s fiction of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
Its innovative study of the oeuvres of Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Fra. \'Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney\' argues that the visual details in women\'s Novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more significant than scholars have previously acknowledged.
There are many factors that contributed to the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gaze in women\'s fiction of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries