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The tested woman plot : women's choices, men's judgments, and the shaping of stories
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- Creator
- Lois E. Bueler
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- viii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814208724, 081420872X
- OCLC
- ocm45861669
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index.
- Tested women plot -- Frames of mind -- Finding the dramatic form -- Male role-splitting and reintegration -- The provocation of virtue and the burden of faith -- Living in the king's two bodies -- Acts of persuasion: "the subtlest forms of violence" -- Dramatizing and narrating -- Pamela as epistolary drama -- Plotting, sympathizing, and moralizing -- Theorizing the obligation of self -- Innocence as ignorance: teaching interpretation -- Drama states and landscapes -- Telling and witnessing
Subjects
- English literature -- History and criticism.
- Women in literature.
- English literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
- Literature and folklore -- Great Britain.
- Man-woman relationships in literature.
- Choice (Psychology) in literature.
- Temptation in literature.
- Judgment in literature.
- Trials in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric)