Title Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen / Claudia L. Johnson.

Publication Info.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Connect to
Connect to http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/94028979.html
Connect to http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0609/94028979-b.html

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	823.609 J66E	Check Shelf

Description	xi, 239 pages ; 23 cm.
Series	Women in culture and society
	Women in culture and society.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-231) and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
	English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century.
	Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.
	Femininity in literature.
	Sentimentalism in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
Indexed Term	English fiction Authors Women
ISBN	0226401839 cloth
	9780226401836 cloth
	0226401847 paper
	9780226401843 paper

-->

Permanent Link

Add a Review

Title Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen / Claudia L. Johnson.

Copies

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings