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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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