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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825741403321

Titolo

Revising women : eighteenth-century "women's fiction" and social engagement / / edited by Paula R. Backscheider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8018-7014-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BackscheiderPaula R. <1943->

Disciplina

823/.509355

Soggetti

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Women - Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminist fiction, English - History and criticism

Social problems in literature

Sex role in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 - The Novel's Gendered Space -- Chapter 2 - The Rise of Gender as Political Category -- Chapter 3 - Renegotiating the Gothic -- Chapter 4 - My Art Belongs to Daddy? Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and the Pre-Texts of Belinda: Women Writers and Patriarchal Authority -- Chapter 5 - Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel, to our understanding of literature's place in cultural debate, and to women's studies. The essays give steady attention to the ways novels participate in social processes and the ways women.