Women, the novel, and natural philosophy, 1660-1727 / Karen Bloom Gevirtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gevirtz, Karen Bloom, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Literature and science--England--History--17th century.

Literature and science.

Women.

Intellectual life.

History.

England.

Literature and science--England--History--18th century.

Point of view (Literature).

Women--England--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

x, 247 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727 shows how early women novelists drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. These writers such as Aphra Behn, Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, and Mary Davys used, tested, explored, accepted, and rejected ideas about the self in their works to represent the act of knowing and what it means to be a knowing self. Karen Bloom Gevirtz agues that as they did so, they developed structures that contributed to the development of the novel as a genre and solidified literary omniscience as a point of view. Book jacket.

Contents:

Notions of the self

An ingenious romance: the stable self

The fly's eye: the composite self

The detached observer

The moral observer

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137389206

1137389206

OCLC:

862041412