Mary Beth Harris

Gebundenes Buch

A Genealogy of the Gentleman

Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

Beschreibung

A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through narrative constructions of the gentleman in courtship novels. This codification of the gentleman allowed women authors to carve out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and hegemonic power were dependent on women’s influence.  

Autor

Mary Beth Harris is assistant professor at Emporia State University where she teaches English and serves as the Director of the Composition Program. Her book A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth-Century was published March 2024 by University of Delaware Press. Her other most recent work can be found in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and The Eighteenth Century, as well as in two edited collections, Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century and A Spy on Eliza Haywood: Addresses to a Multifarious Writer. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781644533291
• ISBN-10: 1644533294
• Artikelnr.: 68506195