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Gender, theatre, and the origins of criticism from Dryden to Manley from Dryden to Manley / by Frank, Marcie

Subjects: “…Manley, Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière), 1663-1724 Knowledge Literature.…”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

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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Real and imagined women in British romanticism by Narayan, Gaura Shankar

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth, Keats, the possibility of the female voice -- The problem of gender in reason, feeling and sentiment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- The problem of gender in beauty, sublimity, and the imagination: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- Gender and the poet's identity in some of the Lyrical ballads: William Wordsworth -- Gender and history in The prelude: William Wordsworth -- Gender and imagination in "Lamia" and "La belle dame sans merci": John Keats.…”
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X marks the spot : women writers map the Empire for British children, 1790-1895 / by Norcia, Megan A., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: mapping imperial hierarchies and ruling the world -- The dysfunctional "family of man": Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland classify human races in pre-darwinian primers -- Place settings at the imperial dinner party: hierarchies of consumption in the works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield -- Terra incognita: the gendering of geographic experience in the works of Barbara Hofland, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary H.C. …”
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Mid-Victorian conceptions of character, agency, and reform: social science and the "great social evil" -- "The taint the very tale conveyed": self-reading, suspicion, and falleness in Dickens -- Melodrama, morbidity, and unthinking sympathy: Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth -- Dramatic monologue in crisis: agency and exchange in G.G. …”
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Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

Table of Contents: “…Mcmahon -- Conceiving the nation: visions and versions of colonial prenatality / Deirdre Osborne -- Orphan stories and maternal legacies in Charlotte Brontë / Mary Jean Corbett -- Distance mothering and the "Cradle lands": imperial motherhood and Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt / Cara Murray -- The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the Fin de siecle / Brenda R. …”
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