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Representing Women and Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre
Mitchell, Marea; Osland, Dianne
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Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, ... Read more
This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349522002
SKU
V9781349522002
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99-15
About Mitchell, Marea; Osland, Dianne
MAREA MITCHELL is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia. Her current teaching and research focus on Early Modern Literature from a cultural materialist perspective, and her most recent publications are on The Book of Margery Kempe, Anna Weamys, and Sidney's Arcadia. DIANNE OSLAND is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Media at the University of ... Read more
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