Helen Thompson

Ingenuous Subjection

Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, "Ingenuous Subjection"Helen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780812238914
• ISBN-10: 0812238915
• Artikelnr.: 22021399

Autorenporträt

Helen Thompson is a member of the Department of English at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I. INGENUOUS SUBJECTION AND FEMININE POLITICAL DIFFERENCE
1. Boys, Girls, and Wives: Post-Patriarchal Power and the Problem of
Feminine Subjection
2. Mushrooms, Subjects, and Women: The Hobbesian Individual and the
Domestic Novel
3. "The Words Command and Obey": Pamela and Domestic Modernity
PART II. INGENUOUS SUBJECTION AND THE NOVEL
4. Eliza Haywood's Philosophical Career: Ingenuous Subjection and Moral
Physiology
5. Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance: Ingenuous Subjection and
Genre
6. Frances Sheridan's "disingenuous girl": Ingenuous Subjection and
Epistolary Form
Conclusion: "Marriage has bastilled me for life": Mary Wollstonecraft's
Domestic Novel
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments