The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s - Public Affection and Private Affliction

The female radical writers of the 1790s depict women attempting to use institutions such as the family, marriage, and motherhood to achieve social and political reform. Most striking about these novels is their depiction of the failure of these institutions to permit women to succeed in such attempts; these failures reveal a complex critique of the philosophies informing the reformist movement of the 1790s based upon the reformist culture's indifference to female concerns.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Contexts and Subtexts
Chapter 2: Renovating the House: Radical
Conceptualizations of Family and Marriage
Chapter 3: Desiring Domesticity: Sexual Union and the Hope of Independence
Chapter 4: Maternity and the Re-Forming of the Radical Family
Chapter 5: Reformed Masculinity and the Revival of the
Marriage Plot: Female Writing and Radicalism after 1796
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Jennifer Golightly is an adjunct instructor at the University of Denver's University College. She serves as co-managing editor of Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women and the Arts, 1640-1830, and as an officer of the Aphra Behn Society.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Golightly
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611483604
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-360-4
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies