Ingenuous Subjection : : Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel /

Ingenuous Subjection : : Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel / / Helen Thompson.

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Helen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by authors such as Mary Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Th...

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Thompson, Helen,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2006
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Ingenuous Subjection and Feminine Political Difference
  • Chapter 1. Boys, Girls, and Wives
  • Chapter 2. Mushrooms, Subjects, and Women
  • Chapter 3. "The Words Command and Obey"
  • Part II. Ingenuous Subjection and the Novel
  • Chapter 4. Eliza Haywood's Philosophical Career
  • Chapter 5. Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance
  • Chapter 6. Frances Sheridan's "disingenuous girl"
  • Conclusion. "Marriage has bastilled me for life"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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