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Helen Thompson - Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel - 9780812238914 - V9780812238914
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Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel

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Description for Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel Hardback. The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous SubjectionHelen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 513.

Helen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by authors such as Mary Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Thompson shows how these writers confront women's paradoxical status as both contractual agents and naturally subject wives. Over the long eighteenth century, Thompson argues, domestic novelists appropriated the standard of political modernity advanced by John Locke and others as a citizen's free or "ingenuous" assent to the law. The domestic novel figures feminine political difference not as women's deviation from ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812238914
SKU
V9780812238914
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About Helen Thompson
Helen Thompson is a member of the Department of English at Northwestern University.

Reviews for Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel
"Thompson has written a significant, much-needed book that has the potential to re-energize the study of eighteenth-century British novels, fiction by women writers especially."
Deidre Lynch, Indiana University
"Helen Thompson's brilliant and persuasive new study makes clear that domestic fiction can best be seen as a theoretical battleground, where the debate about the political philosophy of personal agency, ... Read more

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