Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-264) and index.
Contents
Novel's gendered space / Paula R. Backscheider -- Rise of gender as political category / Paula R. Backscheider -- Renegotiating the gothic / Betty Rizzo -- My art belongs to daddy? : Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and the pre-texts of Belinda : women writers and patriarchal authority / Mitzi Myers -- Jane Austen and the culture of circulating libraries : the construction of female literacy / Barbara M. Benedict.