02598nam 22006373 450 991113289330332120250414112519.09781526175014152617501097815261749941526174995(MiAaPQ)EBC31974076(Au-PeEL)EBL31974076(CKB)38079751800041(OCoLC)1512320187(DE-B1597)730765(DE-B1597)9781526175014(OCoLC)1511788617(MdBmJHUP)musev2_134860(EXLCZ)993807975180004120250327d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThrough the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764-90) Women, Alienation, and Prodigality in the Long Eighteenth Century1st ed.Manchester :Manchester University Press,2025.©2024.1 online resource (249 pages)9781526175007 1526175002 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 -- IndexCentralizing 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.LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century bisacshElectronic books. Anglo-India.British Romanticism.British women’s fiction.Jane Austen.Phebe Gibbes.affect theory.colonialism and imperialism.narrative theory.the long eighteenth century.transnationalism.LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century .823.6Freeman KathrynMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911132893303321UNINA