| Eighteenth-Century Female Voices: Education and the Novel Contributor(s): Klooß, Wolfgang (Other), Augustin-Bech, Sabine (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631529147 ISBN-13: 9783631529140 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $84.94 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 823.509 |
| Series: Trierer Studien Zur Literatur |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.66 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work focuses on the issue of women's education in a series of novels written by women in the second half of the eighteenth century. On the one hand, the surface plots are conservative, thus reaffirming the social order; on the other hand, numerous subversive narrative techniques undermine the surface stories, drawing attention to the consequences of the arbitrary limitations society imposed on middle-class women as well as to the sense of entrapment and the resulting anxieties they experienced. In showing the increasing female readership ways to negotiate between the behavioural codes of a patriarchal society and their own need for personal freedom, these novels can be read as early feminist critiques of society. |