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Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction - Speaking of Dread (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction - Speaking of Dread (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This work offers, firstly, a fresh historical, philosophical and
cultural interpretation of the relation between the
eighteenth-century discourse of sensibility, the sublime, and the
theory and practice of eighteenth-century law. Secondly, the work
exposes and explores the influence of this combination of
discourses upon the formation of gender identities in this period.
The author argues that it is only through a study of the
convergence of these key eighteenth-century discourses that
changing conceptualisations of femininity can fully be understood.
Thirdly, it examines the presence, within eighteenth-century
fiction by women, of a new female subject. Novels by women in this
period, Chaplin posits, begin to reveal that the female subject
position constructed through the discourses of law, sensibility and
the sublime gives rise, for women, to a feminine ontological crisis
that may be seen to anticipate by two hundred years the trauma of
the 'post modern' male subject unable to present a unified
subjectivity to himself or to the world. This feminine crisis finds
expression within a range of female fiction of the mid-to-late
eighteenth century - in Charlotte Lennox's anti-romance satire,
Frances Sheridan's 'conduct-book' novels, the Gothic romances of
Radcliffe and Eliza Fenwick and the sensationalistic horror fiction
of Charlotte Dacre. Concentrating upon these writers, Chaplin
argues that their works 'speak of dread' on behalf of women in this
period and to varying degrees challenge discourses that construct
femininity as a highly unstable, barely tenable subject position.
Combining the works of Lyotard and Irigaray to formulate a new
feminist reading of the eighteenth-century discourse of the
sublime, this study offers fresh insights into the culture and
politics of the eighteenth century. It presents highly original
readings of well-known and lesser-known literary texts that
interrogate from fresh perspectives the complex theoretical issues
pertaining to
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