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Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen /

In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men--upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, G...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Claudia L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Colección:Women in culture and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The age of chivalry and the crisis of gender
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. The distinction of the sexes: the Vindications ; Embodying the sentiments: Mary and The wrong of woman
  • Ann Radcliffe. Less than man and more than woman: The romance of the forest ; The sex of suffering: The mystseries of Udolpho ; Losing the mother in the judge: The Italian
  • Frances Burney. Statues, idiots, automatons: Camilla ; Vindicating the wrongs of woman: The wanderer
  • Jane Austen. "Not at all what a man should be!": remaking English manhood in Emma.