LEADER 02985oam 2200517I 450 001 9910154568203321 005 20230808200652.0 010 $a1-351-87190-0 010 $a1-315-23372-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315233727 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758486 035 $a(OCoLC)973026086 035 $a(BIP)63366006 035 $a(BIP)13976121 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965896 100 $a20180706e20162008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen novelists and the ethics of desire, 1684-1814 $ein the voice of our biblical mothers /$fElizabeth Kraft 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (208 pages) 300 $aFirst published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-6280-2 311 08$a1-351-87191-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Matriarchal desire and ethical relation -- 2. Men and women in the garden of delight -- 3. Sexual awakening and political power -- 4. Hieroglyphics of desire -- 5. His sister's song -- 6. The forgotten woman -- 7. The Lot motif and the redaction of double desire. 330 $aIn Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814, Elizabeth Kraft radically alters our conventional views of early women novelists by taking seriously their representations of female desire. To this end, she reads the fiction of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald in light of ethical paradigms drawn from biblical texts about women and desire. Like their paradigmatic foremothers, these early women novelists create female characters who demonstrate subjectivity and responsibility for the other even as they grapple with the exigencies imposed on them by circumstance and convention. Kraft's study, informed by ethical theorists such as Emmanuel Levinas and Luce Irigaray, is remarkable in its juxtaposition of narratives from ancient and early modern times. These pairings enable Kraft to demonstrate not only the centrality of female desire in eighteenth-century culture and literature but its ethical importance as well. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.0099287 700 $aKraft$b Elizabeth.$0886572 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154568203321 996 $aWomen novelists and the ethics of desire, 1684-1814$91979819 997 $aUNINA