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Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740–1880: A ‘Craving Vacancy’

By Susan Ostrov Weisser (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1997
ISBN
978-0-333-63020-4, 978-0-230-37734-9
DOI
10.1057/9780230377349
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11601513 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 190\203
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; Nineteenth-Ce

Description

Susan Weisser explores the ways in which four British novelists use and transform the theme of women's relation to sexual love in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Looking closely at novels by Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and George Eliot, the author analyzes the moment in cultural history when gender roles, sexuality and literature meet to become a new ideology: one in which the discourses of sexuality and romantic love are seen as both constructive of female freedom and destructive of female identity.

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