LEADER 04623nam 2200865 a 450 001 9910807142103321 005 20240418021901.0 010 $a1-283-21209-9 010 $a9786613212092 010 $a0-8122-0377-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203776 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051226 035 $a(OCoLC)759158212 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491951 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537923 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11360760 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537923 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10557212 035 $a(PQKB)10513534 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8357 035 $a(DE-B1597)449215 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938842 035 $a(OCoLC)1037981857 035 $a(OCoLC)1041979964 035 $a(OCoLC)1046615695 035 $a(OCoLC)1047025787 035 $a(OCoLC)1049625668 035 $a(OCoLC)1054879032 035 $a(OCoLC)979753837 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203776 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441494 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491951 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321209 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441494 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051226 100 $a20050318d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIngenuous subjection $ecompliance and power in the eighteenth-century domestic novel /$fHelen Thompson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-3891-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index. 327 $apt. 1. Ingenuous subjection and feminine political difference -- pt. 2. Ingenuous subjection and the novel. 330 $aHelen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by authors such as Mary Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Thompson shows how these writers confront women's paradoxical status as both contractual agents and naturally subject wives. Over the long eighteenth century, Thompson argues, domestic novelists appropriated the standard of political modernity advanced by John Locke and others as a citizen's free or "ingenuous" assent to the law. The domestic novel figures feminine political difference not as women's deviation from an abstract universal but rather as their failure freely or ingenuously to submit to the power retained by Enlightenment husbands.Ingenuous Subjection claims domestic novelists as vital participants in Enlightenment political discourse. By tracing the political, philosophical, and generic significance of feminine compliance, this book revises our literary historical account of the rise of the novel. Rather than imagining a realm of harmonious sentiment, domestic fiction represents the persistent arbitrariness of eighteenth-century men's conjugal power. Ingenuous Subjection revises feminist theory and historiography, locating the genealogy of feminism in a contractual model of ingenuous assent which challenges the legitimacy of masculine conjugal government. The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous Subjection recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminism and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aDomestic fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPower (Social sciences) in literature 606 $aFamilies in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aDomestic fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) in literature. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a823/.5093552 700 $aThompson$b Helen$f1967-$0240761 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807142103321 996 $aIngenuous subjection$93951940 997 $aUNINA