04370nam 2200769 450 991082110090332120200520144314.00-8131-8448-70-8131-4966-5(CKB)3710000000333977(EBL)1915111(SSID)ssj0001401697(PQKBManifestationID)12510379(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401697(PQKBWorkID)11349798(PQKB)10118875(OCoLC)644048075(MdBmJHUP)muse43890(Au-PeEL)EBL1915111(CaPaEBR)ebr11011710(CaONFJC)MIL690867(OCoLC)900344480(MiAaPQ)EBC1915111(EXLCZ)99371000000033397720150206h19911991 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe courtship novel, 1740-1820 a feminized genre /Katherine Sobba GreenLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1991.©19911 online resource (193 p.)Includes index.1-322-59585-2 0-8131-1736-4 Includes bibliographical references (p.[165]-179) and index.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 Market8. 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; FGH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; WThe 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 dEnglish fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismCourtship in literatureFeminism and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryFeminism and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Courtship in literature.Feminism and literatureHistoryFeminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.823/.0850906Green Katherine Sobba1949-549032MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821100903321The courtship novel, 1740-18204019460UNINA