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Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot

Hazel Mews

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Description:The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and of John Stuart Mill s essay On the Subjection of Women (1869) a crucial phase in the emancipation movement also saw the emergence of England s greatest women writers, whose response to the flux of new ideas as revealed in many outstanding works of fiction Dr Mews here examines. The central chapters of the book take the form of a perceptive and humane analysis of the way in which the greater women novelists conceived the role of women, on the one hand as young girls, wives and mothers, on the other as individuals standing alone in spinsterhood, as teachers or artists. The writers examined in detail are Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, the Bront sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot.Such a comprehensive study has not been attempted before. It throws light not only on the novel and the novelist in society but also on the transmutation of deeply felt experience into creative work."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot. To get started finding Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 221

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1472514750

Description: The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and of John Stuart Mill s essay On the Subjection of Women (1869) a crucial phase in the emancipation movement also saw the emergence of England s greatest women writers, whose response to the flux of new ideas as revealed in many outstanding works of fiction Dr Mews here examines. The central chapters of the book take the form of a perceptive and humane analysis of the way in which the greater women novelists conceived the role of women, on the one hand as young girls, wives and mothers, on the other as individuals standing alone in spinsterhood, as teachers or artists. The writers examined in detail are Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, the Bront sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot.Such a comprehensive study has not been attempted before. It throws light not only on the novel and the novelist in society but also on the transmutation of deeply felt experience into creative work."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot. To get started finding Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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