Empowering the Feminine : : The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 / / Eleanor Ty.
Mary Robinson, a fantastic beauty and popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet 'the English Sappho' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included amongst her friends Sydney Smith, Byron, and S...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
- 1. Engendering a Female Subject: Mary Robinson's (Re)Presentations of the Self
- 2. Questioning Nature's Mould: Gender Displacement in Robinson's Walsingham
- 3. Fathers as Monsters of Deceit: Robinson's Domestic Criticism in The False Friend
- 4. Recasting Exquisite Sensibility: Robinson's The Natural Daughter
- Part II: Jane West (1758-1852)
- 5. Abjection and the Necessity of the Other: West's Feminine Ideals in A Gossip's Story
- 6. Politicizing the Domestic: The Mother's Seduction in West's A Tale of the Times
- 7. Displaying Hysterical Bodies: Philosophists in West's The Infidel Father
- Part III: Amelia Opie (1769-1853)
- 8. Re-scripting the Tale of the Fallen Woman: Opie's The Father and Daughter
- 9. The Curtain between the Heart and Maternal Affection: Theory and the Mother and Daughter in Opie's Adeline Mowbray
- 10. Not a Simple Moral Tale: Maternal Anxieties and Female Desire in Opie's Temper
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index