Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

Women and Romance The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lenno...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Langbauer, Laurie, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2018]
Series:Reading women writing.
Subjects:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Characters > Women.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422301006719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Romance of History, or Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, Sometimes
  • 2. Diverting Romance : Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote
  • 3. An Early Romance: The Ideology of the Body in Mary Wollstonecraft's Writing
  • 4. Streetwalkers and Homebodies: Dickens's Romantic Women
  • 5. Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage: George Eliot's Pessimism and the Problem of a Site for Feminism
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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