The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820 : A Feminized Genre /

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The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions...

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Main Author: Green, Katherine Sobba, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature.
Feminism and literature.
English fiction > Women authors.
English fiction.
Courtship in literature.
Dating (Social customs) in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Amours dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles. That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and should not be decided on any other grounds was a principal theme among a group of heroine-centered novels published between 1740 and 1820. During these d.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9780813149660

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