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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.