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Desire and domestic fiction : a political history of the novel

Armstrong, Nancy

1987,1990

Overview

In this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class. Most critical studies of the novel mistakenly locate political power exclusively in the official institutions of state, ignoring the political domain over which women hold authority, which includes courtship practices, family relations, and the use of leisure time. To remedy this, Armstrong provides a dual analysis, tracing both the rise of the novel and the evolution of female authority as part of one phenomenon.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Subject: Desire in literature / Domestic fiction, English / Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism / English fiction / English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism / Feminism and literature / Feminism and literature -- Great Britain / Great Britain / History and criticism / Home in literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / Literary Studies (18th Century) / Literary Studies (19th Century) / Literary Studies (British and Irish) / Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 / Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 / Literary studies: general / Literature and society -- Great Britain / Renaissance / Sex role in literature / Women and literature / Women and literature -- Great Britain / Women authors / Women in literature
• ISBN: 0195061608, 9780195061604, 9780195041798, 0195041798