Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; THE SUBJECT/S OF THE NOVEL; SLAVERY AND SEXUALITY IN OROONOKO; DANGEROUS IDENTITY The many disguises of Roxana; CHARLOTTE BRONT/CURRER BELL Sexuality, the text and the woman novelist; THE BRONT CHILDREN AT PLAY; THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN THE PROFESSOR; REREADING FEMINISM'S TEXTS Jane Eyre and Shirley; LANGUAGE, SUBJECTIVITY AND LITERATURE: An afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Presents a major challenge to our current understanding of the history of Western literature, in the first feminist and anti-imperialist account of the development of the novel.
