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Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement - Independence, War, Masculinity, and the Novel, 1778-1818 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement - Independence, War, Masculinity, and the Novel, 1778-1818 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of
feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women
writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary
political debates, particularly those relating to the French
Revolution. Megan Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about
their own liberty are also present in their treatment of male
characters. In positing a 'Gentleman's Liberation Movement,' she
suggests that Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Maria
Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all used their creative powers to
liberate men from the very institutions and ideas about power,
society, and gender that promote the subjection of women. Their
writing juxtaposes the role of women in the private spheres with
men's engagement in political structures and successive wars for
independence (the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and
the Napoleonic Wars). The failures associated with fighting these
wars and the ideological debates surrounding them made plain, at
least to these women writers, that in denying the universality of
these natural freedoms, their liberating effects would be severely
compromised. Thus, to win the same rights for which men fought,
women writers sought to remake men as individuals freed from the
tyranny of their patriarchal inheritance.
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