Equivocal beings [electronic resource] : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen / Claudia L. Johnson.
By: Johnson, Claudia L.
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TextSeries: Women in culture and society: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995Description: 1 online resource (xi, 239 p.).ISBN: 9780226401799 (electronic bk.); 0226401790 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | 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 | Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century | Political fiction, English -- History and criticism | Femininity in literature | Sentimentalism in literature | Sex role in literature | 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 | Politique et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle | Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle | Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique | Féminité dans la littérature | Sentimentalisme dans la littérature | Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature | Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique | Art d'écrire -- Différences entre sexes | LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | Engels | Letterkunde | Vrouwelijke auteurs | Sentimentalisme | Politiek | English fiction Authors WomenGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Equivocal beings.DDC classification: 823/.6099287 LOC classification: PR858.W6 | J64 1995ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost | Item type | Current location | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-231) and index.
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.
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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