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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Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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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. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2009. |
Carrier Form: | 192 p. |
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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. |