The courtship novel, 1740-1820 : a feminized genre / Katherine Sobba Green.
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TextPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [(c)1991.]Description: 1 online resource (184 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Courtship in literature
- Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Dating (Social customs) in literature
- Feminist fiction -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Feminist fiction -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- English fiction -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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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 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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