Description |
viii, 260 p. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Athene series
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
A vindication of the writing woman / Dale Spender -- Aphra Behn's Oroonoko : the politics of gender, race, and class / Heidi Hutner -- Preparatives to love : seduction as fiction in the works of Eliza Haywood / Ros Ballaster -- Sarah Fielding's self-destructing utopia : The adventures of David Simple / Carolyn Woodward -- Elizabeth Inchbald : not such a simple story / Katharine M. Rogers -- Charlotte Smith's feminism : a study of Emmeline and Desmond / Pat Elliott -- Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote : a novel interrogation / Helen Thomson -- Fanny Burney : the tactics of subversion / Judy Simons -- Daddy's girl as motherless child : Maria Edgeworth and maternal romance : an essay in reassessment / Mitzi Myers -- Joanna Baillie and Mary Brunton : women of the manse / Mary McKerrow -- "The witchery of fiction" : Charlotte Smith, novelist / Mary Anne Schofield - - Romancing the novel : gender and genre in early theories of narrative / Ros Ballaster -- "Of use to her daughter" : maternal authority and early women novelists / Jane Spencer -- Violence against women in the novels of early British women writers / Katherine Anne Ackley -- The triumph of the form / Rosalind Miles -- Afterword : the wages of writing / Dale Spender. |
Subject |
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Sex role in literature.
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Added Author |
Spender, Dale.
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ISBN |
0807762598 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0807762601 (alk. paper) |
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0080374662 (alk. paper) : |
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0080374654 (pbk. : alk. paper) : |
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