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Unnatural affections : women and fiction in the later 18th century
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Details
- Creator
- George E. Haggerty
- Included Title
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- EBSCOhost eBook collection
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- x, 211 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780585030142, 0585030146, 025333389X, 0253211832
- OCLC
- ocm42329504
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-204) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.