Revising women : eighteenth-century "women's fiction" and social engagement / edited by Paula R. Backscheider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Backscheider, Paula R., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Feminism and literature.

Women--Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Literature and society.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

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

Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism.

Feminist fiction, English.

Social problems in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel, to our understanding of literature's place in cultural debate, and to women's studies. The essays give steady attention to the ways novels participate in social processes and the ways women.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 - The Novel's Gendered Space

Chapter 2 - The Rise of Gender as Political Category

Chapter 3 - Renegotiating the Gothic

Chapter 4 - My Art Belongs to Daddy? Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and the Pre-Texts of Belinda: Women Writers and Patriarchal Authority

Chapter 5 - Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy

Notes

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-264) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7014-3

OCLC:

651708963