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Ingenuous Subjection - Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (Hardcover)
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Ingenuous Subjection - Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (Hardcover)
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Helen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history
of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social
contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by
authors such as Mary Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza
Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Thompson shows how these writers
confront women's paradoxical status as both contractual agents and
naturally subject wives. Over the long eighteenth century, Thompson
argues, domestic novelists appropriated the standard of political
modernity advanced by John Locke and others as a citizen's free or
"ingenuous" assent to the law. The domestic novel figures feminine
political difference not as women's deviation from an abstract
universal but rather as their failure freely or ingenuously to
submit to the power retained by Enlightenment husbands. Ingenuous
Subjection claims domestic novelists as vital participants in
Enlightenment political discourse. By tracing the political,
philosophical, and generic significance of feminine compliance,
this book revises our literary historical account of the rise of
the novel. Rather than imagining a realm of harmonious sentiment,
domestic fiction represents the persistent arbitrariness of
eighteenth-century men's conjugal power. Ingenuous Subjection
revises feminist theory and historiography, locating the genealogy
of feminism in a contractual model of ingenuous assent which
challenges the legitimacy of masculine conjugal government. The
first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a
passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous Subjection
recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement
with the limits of Enlightenment modernity.
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