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Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction - The Heroine of Disinterest (Hardcover)
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Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction - The Heroine of Disinterest (Hardcover)
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Virginia H. Cope analyzes the transition to modern ideals of
identity by tracking a character type, here called the Heroine of
Disinterest, that dominated late eighteenth-century British
fiction. Best represented in Frances Burney's 1778 Evelina, the
Heroine of Disinterest is a young woman of uncertain birth but
unshakeable virtue, manifested in her acts of charity and absolute
imperviousness to the lure of wealth and status. Although the
selfless heroine and the inheritance plot in which she figures are
often dismissed as conventional, this book demonstrates that the
character was central to mediating the vexed relations among
property, education, and identity, unsettled by the rise of a
capitalist ethos. Associating disinterest with women rescued the
ancient ideal from extinction while also providing the discursive
means to divide subjectivity from proprietorship, opening the way
for the Romantic ideal of selfhood as the product of experience and
reflection rather than inherited wealth and lineage.
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