LEADER 04304nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910450553203321 005 20210603024103.0 010 $a1-282-53740-7 010 $a0-226-40179-0 010 $a9786612537400 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226401799 035 $a(CKB)1000000000009221 035 $a(EBL)485971 035 $a(OCoLC)593240116 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337333 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278195 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337333 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10288742 035 $a(PQKB)11017369 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485971 035 $a(DE-B1597)535557 035 $a(OCoLC)1135592181 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226401799 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485971 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10366849 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253740 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000009221 100 $a19940712d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEquivocal beings$b[electronic resource] $epolitics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790's : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen /$fClaudia L. Johnson 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 1 $aWomen in culture and society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-40184-7 311 0 $a0-226-40183-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-231) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tFOREWORD --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tINTRODUCTION. The Age of Chivalry and the Crisis of Gender --$tPART TWO. Ann Radcliffe --$tPART THREE. Frances Burney --$tAFTERWORD. Jane Austen --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aIn the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men-upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work-grotesqueness, strain, and excess-as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings." 410 0$aWomen in culture and society. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFemininity in literature 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aAuthorship$xSex differences 606 $aSex role in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFemininity in literature. 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature. 615 0$aAuthorship$xSex differences. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a823/.6099287 700 $aJohnson$b Claudia L$0871851 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450553203321 996 $aEquivocal beings$91946306 997 $aUNINA