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Record Nr.

UNINA9911117762903321

Autore

Freeman Kathryn

Titolo

Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764-90) : Women, Alienation, and Prodigality in the Long Eighteenth Century

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2025

©2024

ISBN

9781526175014

1526175010

9781526174994

1526174995

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Disciplina

823.6

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Life and Adventures of Mr. Francis Clive (1764) -- 2 The American Fugitive: or, Friendship in a Nunnery (1778, 1784) -- 3 Transnationalism in the Anglo-Indian novels: Zoriada, or, Village Annals (1786) and Hartly House, Calcutta -- 4 Elfrida; or Paternal Ambition (1786) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Centralizing the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period, this study traces Gibbes' evolution from satire to irony through detailed discussion of five novels representing women's struggle for agency in the context of a shifting British patriarchy and its growing global imperialism.