LEADER 04483nam 2200673 450 001 9910455795103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-02866-9 010 $a9786612028663 010 $a1-4426-7439-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442674394 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004026 035 $a(OCoLC)244768756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219202 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000295103 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11251217 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295103 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10315428 035 $a(PQKB)10980276 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600560 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255294 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671469 035 $a(DE-B1597)464440 035 $a(OCoLC)944178224 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442674394 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671469 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257179 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL202866 035 $a(OCoLC)958562577 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004026 100 $a20160922h19981998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmpowering the feminine $ethe narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 /$fEleanor Ty 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1998. 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-4362-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Engendering a Female Subject: Mary Robinson's (Re)Presentations of the Self -- $t2. Questioning Nature's Mould: Gender Displacement in Robinson's Walsingham -- $t3. Fathers as Monsters of Deceit: Robinson's Domestic Criticism in The False Friend -- $t4. Recasting Exquisite Sensibility: Robinson's The Natural Daughter -- $t5. Abjection and the Necessity of the Other: West's Feminine Ideals in A Gossip's Story -- $t6. Politicizing the Domestic: The Mother's Seduction in West's A Tale of the Times -- $t7. Displaying Hysterical Bodies: Philosophists in West's The Infidel Father -- $t8. Re-scripting the Tale of the Fallen Woman: Opie's The Father and Daughter -- $t9. The Curtain between the Heart and Maternal Affection: Theory and the Mother and Daughter in Opie's Adeline Mowbray -- $t10. Not a Simple Moral Tale: Maternal Anxieties and Female Desire in Opie's Temper -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aMary Robinson, a fantastic beauty and popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet 'the English Sappho' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included amongst her friends Sydney Smith, Byron, and Scott, and reputedly refused Godwin's marriage proposal out of admiration for Mary Wollstonecraft. Jane West, who tended her household and dairy while writing prolifically to support her children, was in direct opposition to the radically feminist ideas preceding her. These authors, each from different ideological and social backgrounds, all grappled with a desire for empowerment. Writing in an atmosphere hardened towards reform in response to the French revolution's upheavals, these women focus their narratives on typically feminine attitudes - docility, maternal feeling, heightened sensibility (that key word of the period). Their focus invested these attitudes with new meaning, making supposed female weaknesses potentially active forces for social change.Eleanor Ty's convincing argument, arrived at through close readings of ten key texts, is an important addition to the recent spate of publications which bring to the fore neglected women authors whose fascinating lives and works greatly enrich our understanding of the late eighteenth century and British Romanticism. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a823.5099287 700 $aTy$b Eleanor Rose$f1958-$0222912 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455795103321 996 $aEmpowering the feminine$92457287 997 $aUNINA