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Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction The Heroine of Disinterest /

This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather...

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Main Authors: Cope, Virginia H., 1962
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
Literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230239548
Summary: This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather than inheritance and lineage.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2009.
Carrier Form: 192 p.
ISBN: 9780230220232
9780230239548 :
0230239544 :
CLC: I11
Contents: Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Feminizing Disinterest Burney's Heroines of Disinterest Strategic Disavowals in A Simple Story Gothic Properties Property Recollected in Tranquility Conclusion: Austenian Disinterest Notes Bibliography Index.

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