Description |
vi, 309 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : feminist historical criticism / Beth Fowkes Tobin -- "As sacred as friendship, as pleasurable as love" : father-son relations in the Tatler and Spectator / Shawn Lisa Maurer -- The anatomy of heroism : gender politics and empire in Gay's Polly / Dianne Dugaw -- Lady Mary Wortley Montague and the historical machinery of female identity / Jill Campbell -- Fielding and the comedy of attempted rape / Susan Staves -- Mary Delany, model to the age / Janice Farrar Thaddeus -- A night at the opera : the body, class, and art in Evelina and Frances Burney's Early diaries / Beth Kowaleski-Wallace -- Bluestockings in utopia / Ruth Perry -- Arthur Young, agriculture, and the construction of the new economic man / Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Sermons and strictures : conduct-book propriety and property relations in late eighteenth-century England / Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- "A peculiar protection" : Hanna More and the cultural politics of the Blagdon controversy / Mitzi Myers -- Jane Austen : tensions between security and marginality / Jan Fergus -- "That abominable traffic" : Mansfield Park and the dynamics of slavery / Joseph Lew. |
Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
Chronological Term |
18th century |
Subject |
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Feminism and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Literature and history. |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century.
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Authorship -- Sex differences. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
Indexed Term |
English literature Special subjects Sex roles |
Added Author |
Tobin, Beth Fowkes.
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Added Title |
History, gender, and eighteenth-century literature |
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History, gender, and eighteenth-century literature.
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ISBN |
082031577X alkaline paper |
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9780820315775 alkaline paper |
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