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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1991Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813149660
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820DDC classification:
  • 823/.0850906
LOC classification:
  • PR858.C69.G74 1991eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. A Feminized Genre -- 1. The Courtship Novel: Textual Liberation for Women -- 2. Eliza Haywood: A Mid-Career Conversion -- 3. Mary Collyer: Genre Experiment -- Part II. Feminist Reception Theory -- 4. Early Feminist Reception Theory: Clarissa and The Female Quixote -- 5. Charlotte Lennox: Henrietta, Runaway Ingenue -- 6. Frances Moore Brooke: Emily Montague's Sanctum Sanctorum -- Part III. The Commodification of Heroines -- 7. The Blazon and the Marriage Act: Beginning for the Commodity Market -- 8. Fanny Burney: Cecilia, the Reluctant Heiress -- Part IV. Educational Reform -- 9. Richardson and Wollstonecraft: The "Learned Lady" and the New Heroine -- 10. Bluestockings, Amazons, Sentimentalists, and Fashionable Women -- 11. Jane West: Prudentia Homespun and Educational Reform -- 12. Mary Brunton: The Disciplined Heroine -- Part V. The Denouement: Courtship and Marriage -- 13. Courtship: "When Nature Pronounces Her Marriageable -- 14. Maria Edgeworth: Belinda and a Healthy Scepticism -- 15. Jane Austen: The Blazon Overturned -- Conclusion -- Chronology of Courtship Novels -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. A Feminized Genre -- 1. The Courtship Novel: Textual Liberation for Women -- 2. Eliza Haywood: A Mid-Career Conversion -- 3. Mary Collyer: Genre Experiment -- Part II. Feminist Reception Theory -- 4. Early Feminist Reception Theory: Clarissa and The Female Quixote -- 5. Charlotte Lennox: Henrietta, Runaway Ingenue -- 6. Frances Moore Brooke: Emily Montague's Sanctum Sanctorum -- Part III. The Commodification of Heroines -- 7. The Blazon and the Marriage Act: Beginning for the Commodity Market -- 8. Fanny Burney: Cecilia, the Reluctant Heiress -- Part IV. Educational Reform -- 9. Richardson and Wollstonecraft: The "Learned Lady" and the New Heroine -- 10. Bluestockings, Amazons, Sentimentalists, and Fashionable Women -- 11. Jane West: Prudentia Homespun and Educational Reform -- 12. Mary Brunton: The Disciplined Heroine -- Part V. The Denouement: Courtship and Marriage -- 13. Courtship: "When Nature Pronounces Her Marriageable -- 14. Maria Edgeworth: Belinda and a Healthy Scepticism -- 15. Jane Austen: The Blazon Overturned -- Conclusion -- Chronology of Courtship Novels -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.

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