LEADER 04223nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910466153503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-317-14541-0 010 $a1-4094-2781-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000749164 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000554665 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12160966 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000554665 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10513182 035 $a(PQKB)11388605 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC797532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5293791 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL797532 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509108 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL919228 035 $a(OCoLC)764478519 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5293791 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL331888 035 $a(OCoLC)761290136 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000749164 100 $a20110805d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEighteenth-century women writers and the gentleman's liberation movement$b[electronic resource] $eindependence, war, masculinity, and the novel, 1778-1818 /$fby Megan A. Woodworth 210 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, Vt. $cAshgate$dc2011 215 $a[xi], 229 p 225 1 $aBritish literature in context in the long eighteenth century 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4094-2780-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUn jeune homme comme il y en a peu: Evelina and the masculine empire -- If a man dared act for himself: Cecilia and the family romance of the American Revolution -- The best were only men of theory: masculinity, revolution, and reform, 1789-1793 -- From men of theory to theoretical men: Smith, West, and masculinity at war, 1793-1802 -- A really respectable, enlightened and useful country gentleman: men of fashion, men of merit, and the rehabilitation of the landed gentleman -- Gentleman-like manner: gentlemanly professionals, merit, and the end of patronage -- You misled me by the term gentleman: a final farewell to foppery and nonsense. 330 $aIn the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution. Megan Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their own liberty are also present in their treatment of male characters. In positing a 'Gentleman's Liberation Movement,' she suggests that Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all used their creative powers to liberate men from the very institutions and ideas about power, society, and gender that promote the subjection of women. Their writing juxtaposes the role of women in the private spheres with men's engagement in political structures and successive wars for independence (the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars). The failures associated with fighting these wars and the ideological debates surrounding them made plain, at least to these women writers, that in denying the universality of these natural freedoms, their liberating effects would be severely compromised. Thus, to win the same rights for which men fought, women writers sought to remake men as individuals freed from the tyranny of their patriarchal inheritance. 410 0$aBritish literature in context in the long eighteenth century. 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMasculinity in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 676 $a823/.5099287 700 $aWoodworth$b Megan A$0853549 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466153503321 996 $aEighteenth-century women writers and the gentleman's liberation movement$91905845 997 $aUNINA