The courtship novel, 1740-1820 : a feminized genre / / Katherine Sobba Green

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821100903321
• Autore: Green Katherine Sobba <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1991; ©1991
• ISBN: 0-8131-8448-7; 0-8131-4966-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.0850906
• Soggetti: English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism; Courtship in literature; Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.[165]-179) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. A Feminized Genre; 1. The Courtship Novel: Textual Liberation for Women; 2. Eliza Haywood: A Mid-Career Conversion; 3. Mary Collyer: Genre Experiment; Part II. Feminist Reception Theory; 4. Early Feminist Reception Theory: Clarissa and The Female Quixote; 5. Charlotte Lennox: Henrietta, Runaway Ingenue; 6. Frances Moore Brooke: Emily Montague's Sanctum Sanctorum; Part III. The Commodification of Heroines; 7. The Blazon and the Marriage Act: Beginning for the Commodity Market; 8. Fanny Burney: Cecilia, the Reluctant HeiressPart IV. Educational Reform; 9. Richardson and Wollstonecraft: The ""Learned Lady"" and the New Heroine; 10. Bluestockings, Amazons, Sentimentalists, and Fashionable Women; 11. Jane West: Prudentia Homespun and Educational Reform; 12. Mary Brunton: The Disciplined Heroine; Part V. ; The Denouement: Courtship and Marriage; 13. Courtship: ""When Nature Pronounces Her Marriageable""; 14. Maria Edgeworth: Belinda and a Healthy Scepticism; 15. Jane Austen: The Blazon Overturned; Conclusion; Chronology of Courtship Novels; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; GH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W
• Sommario/riassunto: The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles.That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and should not be decided on any other grounds was a principal theme among a group of heroine-centered novels published between 1740 and 1820. During these d