Unsex'd Revolutionaries : : Five Women Novelists of the 1790's / / Eleanor Ty.
Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women writ...
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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] ©1993 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Theory / Culture
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Female Confinement Literalized
- 2. Breaking the 'Magic Circle'
- 3. The Mother and Daughter
- 4. Resisting the Phallic
- 5. Disruption and Containment
- 6. Resisting the Symbolic
- 7. Contradictory Narratives
- 8. Revolutionary Politics
- 9. Celebrating the Ex-Centric
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index