Eighteenth-Century Female Voices Education and the Novel

This work focuses on the issue of women's education in a series of novels written by women in the second half of the eighteenth century. On the one hand, the surface plots are conservative, thus reaffirming the social order; on the other hand, numerous subversive narrative techniques undermine the surface stories, drawing attention to the consequences of the arbitrary limitations society imposed on middle-class women as well as to the sense of entrapment and the resulting anxieties they experienced. In showing the increasing female readership ways to negotiate between the behavioural codes of a patriarchal society and their own need for personal freedom, these novels can be read as early feminist critiques of society.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

The Author: Sabine Augustin, born in Luxembourg; studies of English and Biology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau; Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien in 1977; actively teaching for 20 years; 2001 M.A. in English Literature with the Open University; 2004 doctorate at the University of Trier.

Bericht

«The book is...a valuable companion for anyone interested in a survey of mainstream feminist approaches to eighteenth-century women's writings.» (Mascha Gemmeke, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sabine Augustin-Bech
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.02.2005
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
• EAN: 9783631529140
• ISBN: 978-3-631-52914-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 236
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 14.8 x 1.3 x 21 cm
• Gewicht (Verpackung): 330 g
• Serie: Trierer Studien zur Literatur > 42