Equivocal Beings - Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen

Foreword by Catharine R. StimpsonAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Age of Chivalry and the Crisis of GenderPt. 1: Mary Wollstonecraft 1: The Distinction of the Sexes: The Vindications2: Embodying the Sentiments: Mary and The Wrongs of WomanPt. 2: Ann Radcliffe 3: Less than Man and More than Woman: The Romance of the Forest4: The Sex of Suffering: The Mysteries of Udolpho5: Losing the Mother in the Judge: The ItalianPt. 3: Frances Burney6: Statues, Idiots, Automatons: Camilla7: Vindicating the Wrongs of Woman: The WandererAfterword: Jane Austen "Not at all what a man should be!": Remaking English Manhood in EmmaNotesIndex

About the author

Claudia L. Johnson is professor of English at Princeton University and the author of Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Summary

Focusing on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney and Jane Austen, this book examines the relationships between politics, gender and feeling. It treats the qualities that were once seen to mar their work as strategies of representation during a time of political change.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson, Claudia L. (Princeton?

  Clara Tuite: University of Melbourne?) Johnson, Johnson Claudia L., Mary Wollstonecraft

• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1995
• EAN: 9780226401843
• ISBN: 978-0-226-40184-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 397 g
• Series: Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS (CHUP); Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Cultural Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form