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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Anne Schofield; Cecilia Macheski |
| ISBN: | 0821407996 9780821407998 |
| OCLC Number: | 11971853 |
| Description: | xvii, 441 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | [I. Gender and genre] -- A woman's portion : Jane Austen and the female character / Linda C. Hunt -- Fanny Burney's "feminism" : gender or genre? / Martha G. Brown -- Men, women, and money : the case of Mary Brunton / Sarah W.R. Smith -- [II. Feminine iconography] -- "At the crossroads" : sister authors and the sister arts / Katrin R. Burlin -- Penelope's daughters : images of needlework in eighteenth-century literature / Cecilia Macheski -- Placing the female : the metonymic garden in amatory and pious narrative, 1700-1740 / April London -- Radcliffe's dual modes of vision / Rhoda L. Flaxman -- [III. Love, sex, and marriage] -- Sisters / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- "I died for love" : esteem in eighteenth-century novels by women / Paula R. Backscheider -- Matrimonial discord in fiction and in court : the case of Ann Masterman / Susan Staves -- "Descending angels" : salubrious sluts and pretty prostitutes in Haywood's fiction / Mary Anne Schofield -- The old maid, or "to grow old, and be poor, and laughted at" / Jean B. Kern -- [IV. Moral and political revolution] -- Politics and moral idealism : the achievement of some early women novelists / Jerry C. Beasley -- Charlotte Smith's Desmond : the epistolary novel as ideological argument / Diana Bowstead -- Hannah More's tracts for the times : social fiction and female ideology / Mitzi Myers -- Jane Austen and the English novel of the 1790's / Gary Kelly -- [V. Fictional strategies] -- Springing the trap : subtexts and subversions / Deborah Downs-Miers -- Frances Sheridan : morality and annihilated time / Margaret Anne Doody -- A near-miss on the psychological novel : Maria Edgeworth's Harrington / Twila Yates Papay -- [VI. The novel and beyond : critical assessments] -- Aphra Behn and the works of the intellect / Robert Adams Day -- "Ladies ... taking the pen in hand" : Mrs. Barbauld's criticism of eighteenth century women novelists / Catherine E. Moore -- The modern reader and the "truly feminine novel" 1660-1815 : a critical reading list / Roger D. Lund -- Afterword : Jane Austen looks ahead / Irene Tayler. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. |
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