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Revising women : eighteenth-century "women's fiction" and social engagement /

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Other Authors: Backscheider, Paula R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women > Great Britain > Books and reading > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Novel's gendered space / Paula R. Backscheider
  • Rise of gender as political category / Paula R. Backscheider
  • Renegotiating the gothic / Betty Rizzo
  • My art belongs to daddy? : Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and the pre-texts of Belinda : women writers and patriarchal authority / Mitzi Myers
  • Jane Austen and the culture of circulating libraries : the construction of female literacy / Barbara M. Benedict.