Women and Romance - The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

Laurie Langbauer is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction, 1850¿1930, also published by Cornell University Press.

Riassunto

According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laurie Langbauer
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781501728006
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-2800-6
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata