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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777008903321

Autore

Armstrong Nancy

Titolo

Desire and domestic fiction [[electronic resource] ] : a political history of the novel / / Nancy Armstrong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987

ISBN

0-19-772370-5

0-19-987903-6

9786610605422

1-280-52317-4

1-280-60542-1

0-19-536474-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x,300p.)

Disciplina

823.009352042

Soggetti

Domestic fiction, English - History and criticism

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - Great Britain

Women and literature - Great Britain

Women in literature

Sex role in literature

Home in literature

Families in literature

Literature and society - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-289) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This treatment of the rise of the novel argues that novels written by and for women in 18th- and 19th-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class.