A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through narrative constructions of the gentleman in courtship novels. This codification of the gentleman allowed women authors to carve out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and hegemonic power were dependent on women’s influence.
A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through narrative constructions of the gentleman in courtship novels. This codification of the gentleman allowed women authors to carve out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and hegemonic power were dependent on women’s influence.
Mary Beth Harris is an assistant professor at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. Her most recent work can be found in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, The Eighteenth-Century, as well as in two edited Collections, Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth-Century and A Spy on Eliza Haywood: Addresses to a Multifarious Writer.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gentleman Spectator as Desiring Author: The Spectator and Mary Davys’s Reform’d Coquet 2. The Gentleman of Letters as Passionate Reader: Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess and David Hume’s Philosophy of Moral Sympathy 3. Romancing the Gentleman Critic: Reading Criticism as Generic Courtship in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote and Samuel Johnson’s The Rambler 4. “Smartly Dealt With; Especially by the Ladies”: The Women Writers of Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison 5. The Gentleman as Authorial Drag: Inverting Plots, Homosociality, and Moral Authorship in Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story and Mary Robinson’s Walsingham Coda: But They Were All Written by Women Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gentleman Spectator as Desiring Author: The Spectator and Mary Davys’s Reform’d Coquet 2. The Gentleman of Letters as Passionate Reader: Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess and David Hume’s Philosophy of Moral Sympathy 3. Romancing the Gentleman Critic: Reading Criticism as Generic Courtship in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote and Samuel Johnson’s The Rambler 4. “Smartly Dealt With; Especially by the Ladies”: The Women Writers of Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison 5. The Gentleman as Authorial Drag: Inverting Plots, Homosociality, and Moral Authorship in Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story and Mary Robinson’s Walsingham Coda: But They Were All Written by Women Notes Bibliography Index
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