Equivocal beings politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men-upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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9781282537408, 9780226401799, 9786612537400, 1282537407, 0226401790, 661253740X
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Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Age of Chivalry and the Crisis of Gender; Part One: Mary Wollstonecraft; 1 The Distinction of the Sexes: The Vindications; 2 Embodying the Sentiments: Mary and The Wrongs of Woman; Part Two: Ann Radcliffe; 3 Less than Man and More than Woman: The Romance of the Forest; 4 The Sex of Suffering: The Mysteries of Udolpho; 5 Losing the Mother in the Judge: The Italian; Part Three: Frances Burney; 6 Statues, Idiots, Automatons: Camilla; 7 Vindicating the Wrongs of Woman: The Wanderer Afterward: Jane Austen""Not at all what a man should be!"": Remaking English Manhood in Emma; Notes; Index
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