TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Claudia L.
TI  - Equivocal beings: politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen 
T2  - Women in culture and society
SN  - 9780226401799 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PR858.W6 J64 1995eb
U1  - 823/.6099287 22
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Wollstonecraft, Mary,
KW  - Radcliffe, Ann Ward,
KW  - Burney, Fanny,
KW  - Austen, Jane,
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Psychological fiction, English
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Political fiction, English
KW  - Femininity in literature
KW  - Sentimentalism in literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Politique et littérature
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Femmes et littérature
KW  - Roman anglais
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Féminité dans la littérature
KW  - Sentimentalisme dans la littérature
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
KW  - Écrits de femmes anglais
KW  - Art d'écrire
KW  - Différences entre sexes
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Engels
KW  - gtt
KW  - Letterkunde
KW  - Vrouwelijke auteurs
KW  - Sentimentalisme
KW  - Politiek
KW  - Authors
KW  - Women
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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