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Ingenuous subjection : compliance and power in the eighteenth-century domestic novel /

The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous SubjectionHelen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thompson, Helen.
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2005]
©2005
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
F minisme et litt rature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e si cle.
Femmes et litt rature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e si cle.
Roman anglais > 18e si cle > Histoire et critique.
Roman familial anglais > Histoire et critique.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Anglo-American Literature, general.
Domestic fiction, English.
Englische Literatur.
English fiction.
Families in literature.
Famille dans la litt rature.
Feminism and literature.
Femmes dans la litt rature.
Frau (Motiv)
Literary Studies.
Literature in Diverse Languages.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la litt rature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Roman.
Unterordnung (Motiv)
Unterordnung.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812203776
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Summary: The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous SubjectionHelen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: 3 illus.
ISBN: 9780812203776
Index Number: PR858
CLC: I561.074
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
Chapter 1. Boys, Girls, and Wives --
Chapter 2. Mushrooms, Subjects, and Women --
Chapter 3. "The Words Command and Obey" --
Chapter 4. Eliza Haywood s Philosophical Career --
Chapter 5. Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance --
Chapter 6. Frances Sheridan s "disingenuous girl" --
Conclusion. "Marriage has bastilled me for life" --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --
Acknowledgments.

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