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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Langbauer, Laurie
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Women in literature. Women and literature. Sex role in literature. Romanticism. English fiction > Women authors. Characters and characteristics. Femmes dans la litterature. Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature. Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne. Femmes et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique. Romanticism > Great Britain. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > Great Britain > History. English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870. Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Personnages > Femmes. Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Critique et interpretation. Wollstonecraft, Mary, > 1759-1797 > Critique et interpretation. Lennox, Charlotte, > 1729-1804 > Critique et interpretation. Lennox, Charlotte, > 1729-1804. > Female Quixote. Meredith, George, > 1828-1909 > Critique et interpretation. Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Characters > Women. Great Britain. History. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck
Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer
Introduction
The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes
Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote
An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing
Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women
Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism
Conclusion.

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