Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The proper lady -- Man's discourse, woman's heart : Mary Wollstonecraft's two vindications -- Love's skirmishes and the triumph of ideology -- "My hideous progeny" : the lady and the monster -- "Ideal and almost unnatural perfection" : revising Mary Shelley -- Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form : the case of Jane Austen -- "The true English style" -- Conclusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"A brilliant, original, and powerful book...This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing "proper lady." Interpreting novels, letters, journals, and political tracts in the context of cultural strictures, Poovey makes an important contribution to English social and literary history and to feminist theory.
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Title
Proper lady and the woman writer.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Austen, Jane,1775-1817-- Criticism and interpretation.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,1797-1851-- Criticism and interpretation.
Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797-- Criticism and interpretation.
Austen, Jane,1775-1817.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,1797-1851.
Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797.
Austen, Jane,1775-1817-- Pensée politique et sociale.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,1797-1851-- Pensée politique et sociale.
Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797-- Pensée politique et sociale.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Austen, Jane,1775-1817
Austen, Jane.
Börngen, ...
Englisch, ...
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,1797-1851
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797
Wollstonecraft, Mary.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Didactic literature, English-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Women and literature-- England-- History-- 18th century.
Women and literature-- England-- History-- 19th century.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Écrits de femmes anglais-- Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.