Actions for Unnatural affections : women and fiction in the later 18th century
Unnatural affections : women and fiction in the later 18th century / George E. Haggerty
- Author
- Haggerty, George E.
- Published
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 211 pages)
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- Contents
- Introduction : Women, novel-writing, and culture in the later eighteenth century -- pt. 1. Family values: Brotherly love in David Simple. Female abjection in A simple story. Female gothic (1): friends and mothers -- pt. 2. Love and friendship: Sisterly love in Sense and sensibility. "Romantic friendship" in Millenium Hall. Wollstonecraft and the law of desire -- pt. 3. Erotic isolation: Self-love in The female Quixote: romancing the ego. "Defects and deformity" in Camilla. The pleasures of victimization in The romance of the forest. Afterword : Female gothic (2): demonic love.
- Subject(s)
- 1700-1799
- English fiction—Women authors—History and criticism
- Women and literature—Great Britain—History—18th century
- English fiction—18th century—History and criticism
- Domestic fiction, English—History and criticism
- Gothic revival (Literature)—Great Britain
- Friendship in literature
- Families in literature
- Desire in literature
- Love in literature
- Sex in literature
- Femmes et littérature—Grande-Bretagne—Histoire—18e siècle
- Roman anglais—18e siècle—Histoire et critique
- Littérature frénétique—Grande-Bretagne
- Amitié dans la littérature
- Familles dans la littérature
- Désir dans la littérature
- Amour dans la littérature
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM—European—English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Domestic fiction, English
- English fiction
- English fiction—Women authors
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- Women and literature
- Frauenroman
- Geschlechterrolle
- Frau
- Littérature anglaise—Femmes écrivains—Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglaise—18e siècle—Histoire et critique
- Amitié—Dans la littérature
- Amour—Dans la littérature
- Femmes et littérature—Grande Bretagne—Histoire—18e siècle
- Geschichte 1750-1800
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0585030146 (electronic bk.)
9780585030142 (electronic bk.)
025333389X
0253211832
9780253333896 (alk. paper)
9780253211835 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780253115096
9781282079236 (online)
1282079239 - Digital File Characteristics
- text file
PDF - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-204) and index.
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