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Representing Women and Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre /

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This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents o...

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Main Authors: Mitchell, Marea (Author), Osland, Dianne (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Gender Studies.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 247 pages)
ISBN:9780230504370
DOI:10.1057/9780230504370