LEADER 04370nam 2200769 450 001 9910821100903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-8448-7 010 $a0-8131-4966-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000333977 035 $a(EBL)1915111 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001401697 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12510379 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401697 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11349798 035 $a(PQKB)10118875 035 $a(OCoLC)644048075 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43890 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1915111 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11011710 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690867 035 $a(OCoLC)900344480 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1915111 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000333977 100 $a20150206h19911991 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe courtship novel, 1740-1820 $ea feminized genre /$fKatherine Sobba Green 210 1$aLexington, Kentucky :$cThe University Press of Kentucky,$d1991. 210 4$dİ1991 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-59585-2 311 $a0-8131-1736-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[165]-179) and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. A Feminized Genre; 1. The Courtship Novel: Textual Liberation for Women; 2. Eliza Haywood: A Mid-Career Conversion; 3. Mary Collyer: Genre Experiment; Part II. Feminist Reception Theory; 4. Early Feminist Reception Theory: Clarissa and The Female Quixote; 5. Charlotte Lennox: Henrietta, Runaway Ingenue; 6. Frances Moore Brooke: Emily Montague's Sanctum Sanctorum; Part III. The Commodification of Heroines; 7. The Blazon and the Marriage Act: Beginning for the Commodity Market 327 $a8. Fanny Burney: Cecilia, the Reluctant HeiressPart IV. Educational Reform; 9. Richardson and Wollstonecraft: The ""Learned Lady"" and the New Heroine; 10. Bluestockings, Amazons, Sentimentalists, and Fashionable Women; 11. Jane West: Prudentia Homespun and Educational Reform; 12. Mary Brunton: The Disciplined Heroine; Part V. The Denouement: Courtship and Marriage; 13. Courtship: ""When Nature Pronounces Her Marriageable""; 14. Maria Edgeworth: Belinda and a Healthy Scepticism; 15. Jane Austen: The Blazon Overturned; Conclusion; Chronology of Courtship Novels; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F 327 $aGH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W 330 $aThe period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles.That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and should not be decided on any other grounds was a principal theme among a group of heroine-centered novels published between 1740 and 1820. During these d 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCourtship in literature 606 $aFeminism and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFeminism and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCourtship in literature. 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.0850906 700 $aGreen$b Katherine Sobba$f1949-$0549032 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821100903321 996 $aThe courtship novel, 1740-1820$94019460 997 $aUNINA