Unsex'd revolutionaries : five women novelists of the 1790s /
Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women writ...
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©1993.
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| Series: | Theory/culture series.
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Table of Contents:
- Female confinement literalized: The Wrongs of woman; or, Maria
- Breaking the "magic circle": from repression to effusion in Memoirs of Emma Courtney
- The mother and daughter: the dangers of replication in The Victim of prejudice
- Resisting the phallic: a return to maternal values in Julia
- Disruption and containment: the mother and daughter in A Simple story
- Resisting the symbolic: exile and exclusion in Nature and art
- Contradictory narratives: feminine ideals in Emmeline
- Revolutionary politics: domesticity and monarchy in Desmond
- Celebrating the ex-centric: maternal influence in The Young philosopher.