Jennifer Golightly

The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s

Public Affection and Private Affliction

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Produktbeschreibung

The female radical writers of the 1790s depict women attempting to use institutions such as the family, marriage, and motherhood to achieve social and political reform. Most striking about these novels is their depiction of the failure of these institutions to permit women to succeed in such attempts; these failures reveal a complex critique of the philosophies informing the reformist movement of the 1790s based upon the reformist culture's indifference to female concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781611483604
• ISBN-10: 1611483603
• Artikelnr.: 34110602

Autorenporträt

By Jennifer Golightly

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Contexts and Subtexts Chapter 2: Renovating the
House: Radical Conceptualizations of Family and Marriage Chapter 3:
Desiring Domesticity: Sexual Union and the Hope of Independence Chapter 4:
Maternity and the Re-Forming of the Radical Family Chapter 5: Reformed
Masculinity and the Revival of the Marriage Plot: Female Writing and
Radicalism after 1796 Notes Bibliography About the Author