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Disciplines of virtue : girls' culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /
In British and American representations of girlhood during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, adolescent girls were viewed both as figures of adornment and as creatures in need of refuge, rescue, and reform. This engrossing book investigates such portrayals of girlhood by analyzing children�...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1995.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Pleasure of the Act: Charity, Penitence, and Narrative
- 2. "The Matter of Letters": Conduct, Anatomy and Pamela
- 3. The Value of Virtue: Dowry, Marriage Settlements, and the Conduct Novel
- 4. The Happiness of Virtue: Evangelicalism, Class, and Gender
- 5. The Daughters of the Republic: Girls' Play in Nineteenth-Century American Juvenile Fiction
- 6. "The True Meaning of Dirt": Putting Good and Bad Girls in Their Place(s)
- Afterword: "Still Harping on My Daughter": Pamela's Sisters.