Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen /

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

Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work--grotesqueness, strain, and excess--as indices of ide...

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Main Author: Johnson, Claudia L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Series:Women in culture and society.
Subjects:
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.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
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.

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Call Number: PR858.W6 J64 1995
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