Representing Women and Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre - Mitchell, Marea;Osland, Dianne
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This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth…mehr

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This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia
Autorenporträt
MAREA MITCHELL is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia. Her current teaching and research focus on Early Modern Literature from a cultural materialist perspective, and her most recent publications are on The Book of Margery Kempe, Anna Weamys, and Sidney's Arcadia. DIANNE OSLAND is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Media at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Her teaching and research interests include eighteenth-century fiction, romance fiction, the ethics of autobiography, and discursive writing, and she has published most recently on Jane Eyre and The Stone Diaries, Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Richardson's Clarissa.