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Appearing to Diminish
Lorna Ellis
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Description for Appearing to Diminish
Hardback. Through analyses of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughless, The Female Quixote, Evelina, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, this genre study explores the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman fuses female power and autonomy with a conservative reintegration with society. Num Pages: 205 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 485.
Through analyses of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughless, The Female Quixote, Evelina, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, this genre study explores the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman fuses female power and autonomy with a conservative reintegration with society. Although the works in question range across a century, their combination of socially conservative plots with feminist critiques of society is remarkable and rare and coincides with similar convergences of particular historical and social forces. The result, the early female Bildungsroman, embraces the Englightenment idealization of "development" as it simultaneously questions the Bildungsroman's ... Read more
Through analyses of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughless, The Female Quixote, Evelina, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, this genre study explores the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman fuses female power and autonomy with a conservative reintegration with society. Although the works in question range across a century, their combination of socially conservative plots with feminist critiques of society is remarkable and rare and coincides with similar convergences of particular historical and social forces. The result, the early female Bildungsroman, embraces the Englightenment idealization of "development" as it simultaneously questions the Bildungsroman's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481075
SKU
V9781611481075
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99-15
About Lorna Ellis
Lorna Ellis received a doctorate in English literature from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1996. While a student, she developed and taught courses in women's literature, the history of the novel, genre studies, and college writing. She also assisted Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat with their edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelly (four volumes). ... Read more
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