Women and romance the consolations of gender in the English novel
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell University Press
1990, 1990
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| Series: | Reading women writing
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-262) and index
- Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck
- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer
- Introduction
- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes
- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote
- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing
- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women
- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism
- Conclusion