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Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals) - Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 (Hardcover)
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Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals) - Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some
female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism
between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the
status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed
idea of "women's proper sphere". This concept disguised inequities
between men and women, first by asserting the reality of female
power, and then by restricting it to self-sacrificing influence. In
this book, Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney's
Evelina, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Bronte's
Villette and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss in order to
demonstrate how some female writers reacted to the issue by
covertly resisting inequities of power and reconciling ideologies
in their art. She argues that in this time period, novels became
increasingly rebellious as well as ambivalent . Heroines were
endowed with power, and emphasis was given to female ability,
rather than to feminine influence.
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