Equivocal beings
Johnson, Claudia L.
Equivocal beings politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen / [electronic resource] : Claudia L. Johnson. - University of Chicago Press, 1995. - 1 online resource (xi, 239 p.) - Women in culture and society . - Women in culture and society. .
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.
9780226401799 (electronic bk.) 0226401790 (electronic bk.)
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.
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Authorship--Sex differences--History--18th century.
Political fiction, English--History and criticism.
Femininity in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Politique et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siècle.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siècle.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
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 Women
Electronic books.
PR858.W6 / J64 1995eb
823/.6099287
Equivocal beings politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen / [electronic resource] : Claudia L. Johnson. - University of Chicago Press, 1995. - 1 online resource (xi, 239 p.) - Women in culture and society . - Women in culture and society. .
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.
9780226401799 (electronic bk.) 0226401790 (electronic bk.)
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.
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Authorship--Sex differences--History--18th century.
Political fiction, English--History and criticism.
Femininity in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Politique et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siècle.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siècle.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
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 Women
Electronic books.
PR858.W6 / J64 1995eb
823/.6099287