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Women's Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770-1820 - Dangerous Occupations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Women's Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770-1820 - Dangerous Occupations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book examines women's domestic occupations in the
Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level. By
examining the momentary thought and feeling processes that informed
the playing of a harp, the stitching of a dress, or the reading of
a gothic novel, the book shifts the focus from women's
socio-cultural contributions through domestic endeavor to how
women's day-to-day tasks shaped experiences of joy, friendship,
resentment, and self. Through an understanding of domestic
occupations as forms of human action, the study emphasises the
inherent unpredictability of quotidian activities and draws
attention to their capacity for exceeding cultural parameters.
Specifically, the book examines needlework, musical accomplishment,
novel reading, and sensibility in the work of Charlotte Smith, Jane
Austen, and Frances Burney, giving new perspectives on established
canonical works while also providing the most sustained analysis of
Charlotte Smith's little studied novel, Ethelinde, to date.
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