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Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen / / Claudia L. Johnson



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Autore: Johnson Claudia L Visualizza persona
Titolo: Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen / / Claudia L. Johnson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.6099287
Soggetto topico: English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century
English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
Femininity in literature
Sentimentalism in literature
Authorship - Sex differences
Sex role in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-231) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. The Age of Chivalry and the Crisis of Gender -- PART TWO. Ann Radcliffe -- PART THREE. Frances Burney -- AFTERWORD. Jane Austen -- NOTES -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: In 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."
Titolo autorizzato: Equivocal beings  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-53740-7
0-226-40179-0
9786612537400
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825616803321
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Serie: Women in culture and society.