Equivocal beings: politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
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1. Verfasser: Johnson, Claudia L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 1995
Schriftenreihe:Women in culture and society
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index
Introduction: The age of chivalry and the crisis of gender -- Mary Wollstonecraft. The distinction of the sexes: the Vindications ; Embodying the sentiments: Mary and The wrong of woman -- Ann Radcliffe. Less than man and more than woman: The romance of the forest ; The sex of suffering: The mystseries of Udolpho ; Losing the mother in the judge: The Italian -- Frances Burney. Statues, idiots, automatons: Camilla ; Vindicating the wrongs of woman: The wanderer -- Jane Austen. "Not at all what a man should be!": remaking English manhood in Emma
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men--upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whos
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