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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959117803321

Autore

Armstrong Nancy <1938->

Titolo

Desire and domestic fiction : a political history of the novel / / Nancy Armstrong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

9786610605422

9780197723708

0197723705

9780199879038

0199879036

9781280523175

1280523174

9781280605420

1280605421

9780195364743

0195364740

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x,300p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

823.009352042

Soggetti

Domestic fiction, English - History and criticism

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminist fiction, English - History and criticism

Psychological fiction - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - Great Britain

Literature and society - Great Britain

Women and literature - Great Britain

Femininity in literature

Sex role in literature

Desire in literature

Women in literature

Home in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references 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.