Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-204) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Women, novel-writing, and culture in the later eighteenth century -- pt. 1. Family values: Brotherly love in David Simple. Female abjection in A simple story. Female gothic (1): friends and mothers -- pt. 2. Love and friendship: Sisterly love in Sense and sensibility. "Romantic friendship" in Millenium Hall. Wollstonecraft and the law of desire -- pt. 3. Erotic isolation: Self-love in The female Quixote: romancing the ego. "Defects and deformity" in Camilla. The pleasures of victimization in The romance of the forest. Afterword : Female gothic (2): demonic love.