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1 online resource (184 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I.A Feminized Genre; 1. The Courtship Novel: Textual Liberation for Women; 2. Eliza Haywood: A Mid-Career Conversion; 3. Mary Collyer: Genre Experiment; Part II. Feminist Reception Theory; 4. Early Feminist Reception Theory: Clarissa and The Female Quixote; 5. Charlotte Lennox: Henrietta, Runaway Ingenue; 6. Frances Moore Brooke: Emily Montague's Sanctum Sanctorum; Part III. The Commodification of Heroines; 7. The Blazon and the Marriage Act: Beginning for the Commodity Market |
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8. Fanny Burney: Cecilia, the Reluctant HeiressPart IV. Educational Reform; 9. Richardson and Wollstonecraft: The Learned Lady and the New Heroine; 10. Bluestockings, Amazons, Sentimentalists, and Fashionable Women; 11. Jane West: Prudentia Homespun and Educational Reform; 12. Mary Brunton: The Disciplined Heroine; Part V. The Denouement: Courtship and Marriage; 13. Courtship: When Nature Pronounces Her Marriageable -- 14. Maria Edgeworth: Belinda and a Healthy Scepticism; 15. Jane Austen: The Blazon Overturned; Conclusion; Chronology of Courtship Novels; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F |
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GH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W |
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The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles. That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and should not be decided on any other grounds was a principal theme among a group of heroine-centered novels published between 1740 and 1820. During these d |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Courtship in literature.
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Dating (Social customs) in literature.
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Feminist fiction -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Feminist fiction -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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English fiction -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Novela inglesa -- S.XVIII -- Historia y crítica
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Novela inglesa -- S.XIX -- Historia y crítica
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Feminismo y literatura -- Gran Bretaña -- Historia
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Feminist fiction
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English literature -- Women authors
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Dating (Social customs) in literature
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Courtship in literature
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English fiction
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English fiction -- Women authors
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Feminism and literature
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Women and literature
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Great Britain
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813117362 |
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0813117364 |
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9781322595856 |
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1322595852 |
