Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790sUniversity of Toronto Press, 1 gen 1993 - 189 pagine Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women writers of the 1790s politicized the domestic or sentimental novel in response to oppression and exclusion. Influenced by radical post-revolution thinkers, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Smith wrote fiction that questioned existing social, economic, legal and cultural practices as they related to women. In particular, they dealt with historically specific gender issues such as female education, the rights and 'wrongs' of woman, and the duties of a wife. Using historical and feminist psycho-linguistic studies as a base, Ty explores some of the complexities encountered in the writings of these five women. Through their challenge to Edmund Burke's patriarchal ideas, they discovered strategies of writing based on the maternal or female aesthetic. For these 'unsex'd revolutionaries,' sentimental or domestic fiction was not just about courtship, love, and romance. Their writings interrogate the structures of society, and criticize and make relevant the connections between the personal and the political, the domestic and the public sphere. |
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... Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty. Unsex'd Revolutionaries Five Women Novelists of the 1790s ELEANOR TY UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1993 Toronto Buffalo London ...
... Symbolic : Exile and Exclusion in Nature and Art 101 7 Contradictory Narratives : Feminine Ideals in Emmeline 115 8 Revolutionary Politics : Domesticity and Monarchy in Desmond 130 9 Celebrating the Ex - Centric : Maternal Influence in.