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Their fathers' daughters : Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and patriarchal complicity / Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
- More, Hannah.
- Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
- Edgeworth, Maria.
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History.
- Women and literature.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Fathers and daughters in literature.
- Patriarchy in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through an examination of the lives and selected works of two 18th-century writers, this study attempts to discover why these women identified so strongly with their fathers, whose conservative, patriarchal views advocated the repression of democracy and freedom of speech.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; 1 Their Fathers' Daughters: An Introduction; 2 Milton's Bogey Reconsidered; 3 Hannah and Her Sister: Women and Evangelicalism; An Introduction to Maria Edgeworth; 4 Home Economics: Domestic Ideology in Belinda; 5 Good Housekeeping: The Politics of Anglo-Irish Ascendancy; 6 Monstrous Daughters: The Problem of Maternal Inheritance; 7 Coda: Charlotte Bronte and Milton's Cook; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1991.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772652-6
- 1-280-44084-8
- 1-4237-3474-2
- 0-19-534502-9
- 1-60256-612-7
- OCLC:
- 191038482
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