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Precarious domesticity and the British novel
"This book investigates the ways domesticity threatens female characters in British fiction from the 1750s to the 1850s. The author argues that fiction provides an imaginative space where these characters can enact resistances to marginalization while also considering how they participate in British imperialism"--
Introduction. Domestic disruption in the British novel -- Competing visions of domestic agency in Jane Collier and Sarah Scott -- Negotiating inheritance in Frances Burney's Cecilia -- Domestic assemblages in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park -- Independence and the inhospitable home in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South -- Professional domesticity in Charlotte Brontë's Villette -- Coda. Reimaginings.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2025]