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Gothic Feminism : The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës /

As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoeveler, Diane Long
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Gothic feminism and the professionalization of "femininity"
  • Gendering the civilizing process: the case of Charlotte Smith's Emmiline, the orphan of the castle
  • Gendering victimization: Radcliffe's early Gothics
  • Gendering vindication: Radcliffe's major gothics
  • Hyperbolic femininity: Jane Austen, "Rosa Matilda" and Mary Shelley
  • The triumph of the civilizing process: the Brontës and romantic feminism.