During the eighteenth century, British critics applied terms of
gender to literature according to the belief that masculine values
represented the best literature and feminine terms signified less
important works or authors. Laura Runge contends however that the
meaning of gendered terms like 'manly' or 'effeminate' changes over
time, and that the language of eighteenth-century criticism cannot
be fully understood without careful analysis of the gendered
language of the era. She examines conventions in various fields of
critical language - Dryden's prose, the early novel, criticism by
women, and the developing aesthetic - to show how gendered
epistemology shaped critical 'truths'. Her exploration of critical
commonplaces, such as regarding the heroic and the sublime as
masculine modes and the novel as a feminine genre, addresses issues
central to eighteenth-century studies.
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