Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-182) and index.
Contents
Female confinement literalized: The Wrongs of woman; or, Maria -- Breaking the "magic circle": from repression to effusion in Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The mother and daughter: the dangers of replication in The Victim of prejudice -- Resisting the phallic: a return to maternal values in Julia -- Disruption and containment: the mother and daughter in A Simple story -- Resisting the symbolic: exile and exclusion in Nature and art -- Contradictory narratives: feminine ideals in Emmeline -- Revolutionary politics: domesticity and monarchy in Desmond -- Celebrating the ex-centric: maternal influence in The Young philosopher.
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