Modes of Discipline - Women, Conservatism, and the Novel After the French Revolution

In Modes of Discipline, Lisa Wood examines British women writers who opposed what they construed as the "poison" of revolutionary thought, and who used the novel form in their search for a vehicle to carry a counterrevolutionary "antidote."

About the author

Lisa Wood's interest in women's writing and narrative practic at the end of the long eighteenth century has produced articles on Jane West and Hannah More, and numerous conference papers on women writers, politics, gender, and narrative form. Her recent research examines representations of masculinity and nation in women's writing of the early nineteenth century, and the implication of eighteenth-century books of household management in the development of British nationalism. Dr. Wood teaches in the department of Humanities at York University, Canada.

Summary

In Modes of Discipline, Lisa Wood examines British women writers who opposed what they construed as the "poison" of revolutionary thought, and who used the novel form in their search for a vehicle to carry a counterrevolutionary "antidote."

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Wood
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611481716
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-171-6
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies