The courtship novel, 1740-1820 : a feminized genre /
Green, Katherine Sobba, 1949-
The courtship novel, 1740-1820 : a feminized genre / Katherine Sobba Green. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, (c)1991. - 1 online resource (184 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 HeiressPart 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 GH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W
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.
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9780813117362 9781322595856
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Courtship in literature.
Feminism and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Feminism and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Dating (Social customs) in literature.
Feminist fiction--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Feminist fiction--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR858 / .C687 1991
The courtship novel, 1740-1820 : a feminized genre / Katherine Sobba Green. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, (c)1991. - 1 online resource (184 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 HeiressPart 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 GH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W
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.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780813117362 9781322595856
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Courtship in literature.
Feminism and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Feminism and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Dating (Social customs) in literature.
Feminist fiction--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Feminist fiction--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR858 / .C687 1991