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Equivocal beings politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen  Cover Image E-book E-book

Equivocal beings politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen

Summary: 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, whos.

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  • ISBN: 9780226401799 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0226401790 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780226401843
  • ISBN: 0226401839 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 0226401847 (paper)
  • ISBN: 9780226401836 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 0226401839 (cloth)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (xi, 239 p.)
  • Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: The age of chivalry and the crisis of gender -- Mary Wollstonecraft. The distinction of the sexes: the Vindications ; Embodying the sentiments: Mary and The wrong of woman -- Ann Radcliffe. Less than man and more than woman: The romance of the forest ; The sex of suffering: The mystseries of Udolpho ; Losing the mother in the judge: The Italian -- Frances Burney. Statues, idiots, automatons: Camilla ; Vindicating the wrongs of woman: The wanderer -- Jane Austen. "Not at all what a man should be!": remaking English manhood in Emma.
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Subject: Wollstonecraft, Mary -- 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation
Radcliffe, Ann Ward -- 1764-1823 -- Criticism and interpretation
Burney, Fanny -- 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation
Austen, Jane -- 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation
Wollstonecraft, Mary -- 1759-1797 -- Critique et interprétation
Radcliffe, Ann Ward -- 1764-1823 -- Critique et interprétation
Burney, Fanny -- 1752-1840 -- Critique et interprétation
Austen, Jane -- 1775-1817 -- Critique et interprétation
Wollstonecraft, Mary -- 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation
Radcliffe, Ann Ward -- 1764-1823 -- Criticism and interpretation
Burney, Fanny -- 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation
Austen, Jane -- 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Letterkunde
Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century
Sentimentalisme dans la littérature
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Vrouwelijke auteurs
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Sex role in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Féminité dans la littérature
Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique
Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism
Art d'écrire -- Différences entre sexes
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Politiek
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
Sentimentalism in literature
Political fiction, English -- History and criticism
Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique
Femininity in literature
Politique et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
Engels
Sentimentalisme
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English fiction -- Authors -- Women
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