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Desire and domestic fiction : a political history of the novel

Author: Nancy Armstrong
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nancy Armstrong
ISBN: 0195041798 9780195041798 0195061608 9780195061604
OCLC Number: 13947752
Notes: Includes index.
Description: x, 300 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now --
The Rise of Female Authority in the Novel --
The Logic of the Social Contract --
The Logic of the Sexual Contract --
The Sexual Contract as Narrative Paradigm --
The Sexual Contract as Narrative Process --
The Rise of the Domestic Woman --
The Book of Class Sexuality --
A Country House That is Not a Country House --
Labor That is Not Labor --
Economy That is Not Money --
The Power of Feminization --
The Rise of the Novel --
The Battle of the Books --
Strategies of Self-Production: Pamela --
The Self Contained: Emma --
History in the House of Culture --
The Rhetoric of Violence: 1819 --
The Rhetoric of Disorder: 1832 --
The Politics of Domestic Fiction: 1848 --
Figures of Desire: The Brontes --
Seduction and the Scene of Reading --
The Woman's Museum: Jane Eyre --
Modern Men: Shirley and the Fuegians --
Modern Women: Dora and Mrs. Brown.
Responsibility: Nancy Armstrong.
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