Gender and utopia in the eighteenth century : essays in English and French utopian writing / edited by Nicole Pohl and Brenda Tooley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pohl, Nicole, 1961-

Tooley, Brenda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias in literature.

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

French literature--18th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Feminism in literature.

Femininity in literature.

Dystopias in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Gender and utopia in the 18th century

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

Utopian exchanges : negotiating difference in utopia / Lee Cullen Khanna

A fragile utopia of sensibility : David Simple / Joseph F. Bartolomeo

Gothic utopia : heretical sanctuary in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian / Brenda Tooley

Rewriting Rousseau : Isabelle de Charrière's domestic dystopia / Caroline Weber

Utopia in the seraglio : feminist hermeneutics and Montesquieu's Lettres persanes / Mary McAlpin

Transparency and the enlightenment body : utopian space in Sarah Scott's Millenium hall and De Sade's The 120 days of Sodom / Ana M. Acosta

The emperess of the world : gender and the voyage utopia / Nicole Pohl

A man might find every thing in your country : improvement, patriarchy and gender in Robert Paltock's The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins / Elizabeth Hagglund and Jonathan Laidlow

Generating regenerated generations : race, kinship and sexuality in Henry Neville's Isle of pines (1668) / Seth Denbo

Thinking globally, acting locally : enlightenment utopianism for 21st-century feminists? / Alessa Johns.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-193) and index.

ISBN:

0754654354

9780754654353

OCLC:

69792041