politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen /
Claudia L. Johnson.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
1 online resource (xi, 239 pages)
Women in culture and society
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.
Introduction: The age of chivalry and the crisis of gender -- Mary Wollstonecraft. The distinction of the sexes: the Vindications ; Embodying the sentiments: Mary and The wrong of woman -- Ann Radcliffe. Less than man and more than woman: The romance of the forest ; The sex of suffering: The mystseries of Udolpho ; Losing the mother in the judge: The Italian -- Frances Burney. Statues, idiots, automatons: Camilla ; Vindicating the wrongs of woman: The wanderer -- Jane Austen. "Not at all what a man should be!": remaking English manhood in Emma.
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In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men--upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whos.
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Austen, Jane,1775-1817-- Criticism and interpretation.
Burney, Fanny,1752-1840-- Criticism and interpretation.
Radcliffe, Ann,1764-1823-- Criticism and interpretation.
Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797-- Criticism and interpretation.
Austen, Jane,1775-1817-- Critique et interprétation.
Burney, Fanny,1752-1840-- Critique et interprétation.
Radcliffe, Ann Ward,1764-1823-- Critique et interprétation.
Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797-- Critique et interprétation.
Austen, Jane,1775-1817
Burney, Fanny,1752-1840
Radcliffe, Ann,1764-1823
Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797
Authorship-- Sex differences-- History-- 18th century.
English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Femininity in literature.
Political fiction, English-- History and criticism.
Politics and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Psychological fiction, English-- History and criticism.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Art d'écrire-- Différences entre sexes.
Écrits de femmes anglais-- Histoire et critique.
Féminité dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
Politique et littérature-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Roman anglais-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.