Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
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Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
（Women in culture and society : a series / edited by Catharine R. Stimpson）
University of Chicago Press, 1995
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Available at 22 libraries
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
10531597,
cloth930.261H050709*
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Includes index
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ISBN 9780226401836
Description
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe and gratitude. 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, this work examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender and feeling in the fiction of this period, it provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work - grotesqueness, strain and excess - as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict.
The author maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."
Table of Contents
Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Age of Chivalry and the Crisis of Gender Pt. 1: Mary Wollstonecraft 1: The Distinction of the Sexes: The Vindications 2: Embodying the Sentiments: Mary and The Wrongs of Woman Pt. 2: Ann Radcliffe 3: Less than Man and More than Woman: The Romance of the Forest 4: The Sex of Suffering: The Mysteries of Udolpho 5: Losing the Mother in the Judge: The Italian Pt. 3: Frances Burney 6: Statues, Idiots, Automatons: Camilla 7: Vindicating the Wrongs of Woman: The Wanderer Afterword: Jane Austen "Not at all what a man should be!": Remaking English Manhood in Emma Notes Index
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: paper ISBN 9780226401843
Description
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe and gratitude. 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, this work examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender and feeling in the fiction of this period, it provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work - grotesqueness, strain and excess - as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict.
The author maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."
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