Women and sexual love in the British novel, 1740-1880 :
[Book]
a 'craving vacancy' /
Susan Ostrov Weisser
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Macmillan,
1997
xiii, 190 p. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-187) and index
1. Sexual possibilities and impossibilities -- 2. Chastity and "Rumour'd heavens": Woman and the double message of sexual love -- 3. The light in the cavern: Samuel Richardson and sexual love -- 4. Thornfield and "The dream to repose on": Jane Eyre -- 5. Down the "Forbidden path": Villette -- 6. Wild desire and quenchless will: Wuthering heights -- 7. George Eliot and the "Hidden wound"
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English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism